Ailing Chavez activates Venezuela political council

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Agence France-Presse

Ailing Chavez activates Venezuela political council
AFP May 3, 2012, 5:47 pm

CARACAS (AFP) - President Hugo Chavez, in Cuba for cancer treatment, named key members of a Council of State Wednesday led by his vice president, which some analysts see as a potential transitional body.

The president, staffed the council, a consultative body led by Vice President Elias Jaua that had existed only on paper since the 1999 Constitution, raising eyebrows as Venezuelans fret about their leader's health.

Members include Jaua; Ambassador to the OAS Roy Chaderton; UN human rights council envoy German Mundarain; writer Luis Britto Garcia and Admiral Carlos Rafael Giacopini, the state-run Official Gazette reported.

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"Everyone knows the president's health is delicate, so his setting up the Council of State now cannot be good news,"
political analyst John Magdaleno told AFP.


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[naaman fletcher]

1. wow

His christian pandering is far worse than even W.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. What do you mean? nt

[naaman fletcher]

3. the religious comments in the article nt

[bitchkitty]

7. He means that Chavez isn't allowed to pray

without some vulture jumping in with a smart ass remark. That would be my guess, anyway.

[bemildred]

4. Moving past denial, good. nt

[joshcryer]

5. +1, hopefully they'll set up a good PSUV candidate.

[bemildred]

6. Yep, need to put things on a sound basis going forward.

Now is the time. Watched it several times. Big Man politics can work for a while, but sooner or later you have to let it go, and fate seems to have stepped in and made the choices clear and immediate.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

8. We Spanish speakers tend to go kinda spiritual at times. nt