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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez promised on Saturday to tackle poor garbage collection and high crime in a bid to win back support for his socialist "revolution," which was hurt in a poll defeat a few weeks ago.
Seemingly taking on board common criticism of his performance, Chavez said it was unacceptable that garbage was piling up uncollected in some parts of capital city Caracas, and acknowledged people were worried about crime.
"Yesterday I had to call the vice president and order an emergency meeting about the garbage situation," he said. "How is it possible that a government can't collect the trash?"
Caracas' garbage problem overflowed in December, with drifts of rotting rubbish blocking sidewalks.
Chavez also made reference to protests this week against violent crime, a issue his government has often claimed is exaggerated by the opposition.
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Chavez spent much of 2007 working on political "reforms" that would have allowed him to run for reelection indefinitely and given him sweeping powers to build a socialist state.
His plan was defeated in a referendum earlier this month in part because of growing dissatisfaction among his supporters with corruption, insecurity and even shortages of products like milk in the oil-rich nation
In an unannounced telephone call to a chat show on state television, Chavez promised things would be different in 2008. "We are going to make this year one of truly deep revision, of rectification and of revitalizing the revolutionary process," he said.
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Lil Benito is going to 'revitalize the revolutionary process' until he gets what he wants. It will just be a lil slower and a lil more undercover then before.
There was a rumor he had wanted to void the recent referendum but the party overruled him.
Duce! Duce! Duce!
12-29-2007, 08:18 PM
Chavez vows to put "revolution" back on track
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