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Chávez announces measures to develop Bolivarian
revolution
By Ronald Suárez Rivas and
Alberto Borrega—Granma daily special correspondents—
CARACAS, January 8.—President
Hugo Chávez has announced new measures to develop
the Bolivarian revolution and its advance to
socialism, including the nationalization of sectors
privatized by previous governments.
The leader swore in his new
cabinet for the mandate that begins January 10 and
emphasized that nothing could divert the Venezuelan
process from the road to socialism.
He urged ministers to take on new
working methods to strengthen popular participation
and detailed part of the strategy to be followed in
the phase of deepening the process that he is
leading, based on five fundamental lines.
The first is the call for
legislation empowering the executive to create a
number of laws similar to those introduced in 2001.
These include the nationalization
of important properties privatized in the past, such
as the National Telephone Company (CANTV) and the
refining process of crude oil in the Orinoco belt,
currently in the hands of foreign enterprises.
The other lines consist of a
constitutional socialist reform; popular education
to promote ethical values; the creation of what he
called “a new geometry of power” so as to dismantle
the old structures of the Fourth Republic; and the
encouragement of communal power, in order to
“progressively transform the bourgeois state” into
another socialist and Bolivarian one.
Chávez issued a call for the
unity of the revolutionary forces around one sole
party, and to make war to the death on corruption,
bureaucracy and other currents that are halting the
development of the process.
Also sworn in this Monday was
Jorge Rodríguez as new vice president, while José
Vicente Rangel, who has held this position for the
last four years, was recognized with the Sword of
the Liberator.
Translated by
Granma International
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