News: Law and Justice

Due to increased electricity use as well as the global need to save energy, the Venezuelan government is implementing a number of measures to encourage the private, public, and domestic sectors to reduce usage.

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This Tuesday the president of the Republic, Hugo Chávez , approved an increase of 80% in the grants provided to the working mothers who are involved in maintaining “food houses” throughout the country.

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18 months after he fled Venezuela to avoid criminal prosecution for what authorities claim were $27 million dollars in illegal currency transactions, a U.S. court granted political asylum to fugitive Venezuelan banker Eligio Cedeño.

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Venezuela will continue demanding that the United States extradite Luis Posada Carriles, wanted for terrorism, after he was found “not guilty” in a trial in the U.S. on other charges, since his current legal status means there is “no argument” as to why he can’t be extradited.

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This week, Venezuela’s National Assembly (AN) unanimously approved the Law Against Racial Discrimination, legislation that will establish mechanisms to prevent, respond to, punish and eradicate racial discrimination by any person, group of persons, public authorities, private institutions and private institutions, and civil, economic, political, cultural, and social organizations.

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Following a nine-month battle with the United States over where alleged Venezuelan drug smuggler Walid Makled would be extradited to, Colombia finally extradited Makled finally to Venezuela on Monday. 

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday used his standing legislative authority to enact three new laws designed, he said, “to dignify” the living conditions of Venezuela’s urban residents. Each law sets out to address the issues relating to forced evictions, ‘residential workers’ (concierges), and the management of urban property rights.

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