Venezuela votes on giving Chavez wider powers
AFP, December, 2007
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CARACAS (AFP) — Venezuelan voters were to decide Sunday whether to give President Hugo Chavez wider powers, including limitless re-election, in a referendum seen as too close to call.
Chavez, a fiercely anti-US leader who has run his oil-rich country for the past eight years, has accused any who challenge the reforms of being "traitors."
He has also warned he would cut off all oil exports if violence breaks out during or after polling, claiming the United States was fomenting unrest.
Opposition has grown to the 39 changes he has proposed to Venezuela's constitution, with university students being joined by former Chavez allies.
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Street protests in the lead-up to the vote, many brutally dispersed by teargas-firing police, culminated Thursday in a mass rally in which demonstrators said Chavez was trying to establish a Cuba-like communist state in the mold of his mentor, Fidel Castro. ...
