The CotoBuzz Journal, Community Journalism

TCJ February 2007 Issue

We do not make jokes, we simply watch the LA Times, the Orange County Register and the Coto de Caza Board of directors and report the facts!

CChavez gains free rein in Venezuela – CZ BOD have free rein in Coto de Caza

January 31, 2007

CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez, convening in a downtown plaza, lawmakers unanimously gave Chavez sweeping powers to legislate by decree and impose his radical vision of a more egalitarian socialist state.

Late last year, the Coto de Caza board of directors unanimously approved a measured aimed at isolating critics of the administration. In essence, the Coto de Caza board has done what Chavez has promised to do duringthe next 18 months: “.. to transform broad areas of public life, from the economy and the oil industry in particular, to "social matters" and the very structure of the state. His critics call it a radical lurch toward authoritarianism by a leader with unchecked power”, according to an AP report released earlier today.

"If you have all the power, why do you need more power?" said Luis Gonzalez, a high school teacher who paused to watch in the plaza the Chavez assembly, calling it a "media show" intended to give legitimacy to a repugnant move. "We're headed toward a dictatorship, disguised as a democracy.". Critics of the current Coto de Caza board have called it the most incompetent in the history of the community.

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