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Venezuela turns back clock 30 minutes
December 10, 2007 ... out a time change intended to optimize use of daylight hours. Chavez has said it will help Venezuelans take better advantage of daylight hours and keep schoolchildren from having to wake up before ... The change occurred at 3 a.m., putting Venezuela 4 1/2 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time — a unique time zone for ... -
Down But Not Out in Caracas
December 5, 2007 ... 49.3 per cent. 'Por ahora,' as Chávez said in his early hours address: 'for now.' A combination of fear about what ... by Chávez's comments and commitments made in the early hours of this morning, there is no mood for turning back. ... -
Keeping the Record Straight on Venezuela
December 9, 2007 ... dramatically to the camera that he had been "held for 30 hours" by police in Caracas. In fact, he had walked into a ... including those that would reduce the working week from 44 hours to 36 hours; extend social security benefits to 5 million ... -
Pro-Constitutional Reform Closes Campaign with Massive Rally in Venezuela
December 1, 2007 ... after the referendum. Beginning in the early hours of the morning, a sea of red filled Avenida Bolivar, ... that the reforms which would reduce the work week to 36 hours, allow for presidential reelection, recognize new forms ... -
Concession Speech of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela
December 8, 2007 ... the thousands of Venezuelans who were working for up to 24 hours at the polls, the national electoral council- I want to ... from my heart I tell you, and believe me I spent many hours debating this dilemma with myself, at the very depths ... heart, here in my Venezuelan soul I spent four and a half hours with a great dilemma, from 9:00 at night until 1:00, ... -
Fear of Chavez is Fear of Democracy
December 5, 2007 ... nation’s constitution with changes in property law, work hours and so many other complex economic adjustments that the ... of its own weight. It’s the Oil. Term limits and work hours in Venezuela? Why was this a crisis for Washington? Why ... Julio Borges, on a campaign stop to a small town three hours from Caracas. We met his supporters - or, more ... -
The Venezuelan Referendum
December 4, 2007 ... age from 18 to 16; lowering the work week from 44 to 36 hours; prohibiting discrimination based on disability or ... -
Venezuela and Brazil Strengthen Economic Ties
December 17, 2007 ... most important meeting to date when they met for a few hours in Caracas last week. Lula and Chavez agreed to meet ... -
Venezuela Attends 4th Annual Petrocaribe Summit in Cuba
December 23, 2007 The 4th Summit of Petrocaribe, a regional energy organization initiated by Venezuela, concluded in the Cuban city of Cienfuegos Friday, with member nations signing new agreements to promote economic and social development and regional energy integration. -
Four Lessons for Progressives from Venezuela's Recent Referendum
December 6, 2007 ... informal sector. Article 90: Decrease the workweek from 44 hours to 36 hours. Article 103: Mandate that all public education, up to ... -
Venezuela: Reality versus reporting
December 17, 2007 ... state institutions * Reducing the work day to a maximum 6 hours, the work week to a maximum 36 hours * Creating parity in the voting system in universities ... -
Making Sense of Venezuela’s Constitutional Reform
December 1, 2007 ... would remain idle. Reducing the workweek from 44 to 36 hours per week would give workers more power, vis-à-vis ... about whether the workday would be six instead of eight hours, as has been widely reported. The reform text states that the workday may not exceed six hours OR 36 hours per week. The labor minister has ... -
Venezuelan Constitutional Reform Vote Concludes Peacefully
December 2, 2007 ... and normalcy. Most voters turned out in the early hours of Sunday morning, when voting centers had some long ... -
Chavez: Venezuelan People Can Present New Reform Proposal
December 5, 2007 ... Assembly. During his concession speech in the early hours of Monday morning Chavez conceded that perhaps the ... -
Was the constitutional reform a threat to democracy? A reply to Mr. R.Douglas MacDonald.
LetterDecember 12, 2007 On December 7th R. Douglas MacDonald wrote an interesting letter (http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/letter/2974) on the constitutional referendum in which he mentions my article on the same (http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/2955). He is kind...
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