Reply #139: Wrong, the US president absolutely has decree powers.

[sabrina 1]

And since this country is in a permanent 'state of emergency' Obama can do what you are claiming Chavez can do. Eg, he could have used those those powers to end DADT, and as CIC, he had the absolute right to do it, I have written about his and it is in my journal. He could have done it, but did not. He could bring home the troops as CIC also, but has not.

Link to the powers Chavez has as a result of that democratic decision made by Ven's Congress to give him decree powers please. As I understand it, those powers are limited and he does not have the power to change laws passed by Ven's legislative body.

The man is way too tolerant as I have said already, of the rightwing forces still operating against Democracy in Venezuela. He should have jailed them all and prosecuted them when they committed treason against their country in 2002. But choosing to be more tolerant, he left far too many of them free to continue to try to undermine Venezuela's democracy, and your misunderstanding of the history of that region of the world over the past decade, proves how wrong he was. It gave the western powers the opportunity to continue to operate in Latin America and to try to destabalize every emerging democracy there.

No one claiming to support the Arab Spring can be anti-Venezuelan democracy and their right to choose, as they have, the leader of their choice rather than the usual puppets installed by Global Capitalists who will do their bidding, as is likely to happen in Libya, as happened in Iraq and will keep happening unless the Muslim world is fortunate enough to find leaders like Chavez who will not give in to Globalists whose main interest in his country is its resources for their own profits.