Chavez to Disband Ven. Congress

When dogs start fleeing Venezuela, you know things are getting really bad. After convincing the Venezuelan legistlature to bestow upon him "temporary" power to bypass congress, he's now looking to eliminate it altogether. Of course. How else could he fulfill the role of castro Jr.?.

Venezuela may eliminate the National Assembly and transfer the powers of congress to community councils, congressman Dario Vivas said.

The councils, which the government began organizing this year, will replace some
state institutions and shutting congress is ``part of that debate,'' said Vivas, who is president of the assembly's committee on citizen participation, decentralization and regional development.

Vivas didn't say when or how congress would be eliminated.

"We're going toward a communal government, a communal parliament,'' Vivas in an interview with Caracas-based Globovision television station today. "Those institutions that we consider to have completed their cycle will have to make way for decisions made by the communities.''

Boosting the power of community councils is part of President Hugo Chavez's plan to transform Venezuela into a socialist society.

The assembly's 167 members, all of whom support Chavez, gave the former Army lieutenant colonel last month the power to make laws by decree for the next 18 months.

H/T Liberty Papers.