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President Hugo Chavez wants an "enabling law" for the fourth time to pass emergency laws quickly for housing, land use and banking.
"There is no time to lose," he said on tv, citing the country's emergency efforts to help thousands of people displaced by deadly floods and mudslides.
ALSO: Chavez says he will govern temporarily from a Bedouin tent gifted to him last year by Libyan leader Gaddafi and allow people made homeless by recent floods to take temporary shelter in his office.
The tent will be in the garden of the presidential palace. Twenty-five families are already staying at the palace.
AND THIS: Wikileaks revealed that Colombia's former President Alvaro Uribe told a U.S. diplomatic mission that the threat posed by his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez in Latin America was comparable to that of Hitler in Europe in the 1930s.
FOR DETAILS, SEE:
http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/13364-uribe-compared-chavez-to-hitler-wikileaks.html
ON A CONTINUING CRIME PROBLEM : The Provea human rights group reports that 13,985 people were slain in Venezuela in 2009 but thousands more were also likely killed.
Rampant crime is now a major concern for Venezuelans.
The government has stopped releasing annual figures, making arriving at an exact figure difficult.
President Hugo Chavez agrees that crime is a major problem but he accuses NGOs and the media of exaggerating the problem.
FOR DETAILS, SEE:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/09/AR2010120906955.html
Meanwhile, the government reports that the death toll from continued rains in has now risen to 34.
FOR MORE ON RAINS, SEE:
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=380808&CategoryId=10717
