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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. ...

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 ...

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, ...

December 4, 2007 ... age from 18 to 16; lowering the work week from 44 to 36 hours; prohibiting discrimination based on disability or ...

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 ...

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 ...

December 4, 2007 ... in the shops where they usually buy. Queues of a few hours, sometimes up to four hours, to buy some milk are no longer the exception. As ...

December 6, 2007 ... what he proposes to achieve is no secret: in thousands of hours of media appearances his visions of social justice, ...

December 4, 2007 One electoral defeat is disheartening but changes nothing. Venezuela's struggle for social democracy continues under a man who has worked nine years to build it. Don't ever count him out or his strong popular support.

December 10, 2007 Why, when approximately 7.1 million people voted for Chavez in the presidential elections in December 2006, did nearly 3 million of them abstain in the constitutional reform referendum a year later?

December 10, 2007 While we reflect on errors made, we should not lose sight of the unique opportunities posed by this turn of events. Sunday's referendum defeat marks a critical juncture in the Bolivarian Revolution: with the most direct, state-led path to socialism effectively blocked, Chávez will have no other alternative than to rely on the mobilization of the popular revolutionary masses.

December 19, 2007 ... communal property and cut the work day from eight to six hours. Turnout was lower than expected. Addressing his ...

December 12, 2007 While I began my visit as an international observer of the democracy of the election process, finding it in many ways more democratic than our own, I ended up also observing the internal democracy of the Chavista movement itself and finding at its grassroots an inspiring commitment to pluralism, critical debate, and popular autonomy from which we also have much to learn.