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Title: Hugo Chávez Decree Tightens Hold on Intelligence
Post by: MB_722 on June 02, 2008, 10:49:37 PM

Chávez Decree Tightens Hold on Intelligence

CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chávez has used his decree powers to carry out a major overhaul of this country’s intelligence agencies, provoking a fierce backlash here from human rights groups and legal scholars who say the measures will force citizens to inform on one another to avoid prison terms.

Under the new intelligence law, which took effect last week, Venezuela’s two main intelligence services, the DISIP secret police and the DIM military intelligence agency, will be replaced with new agencies, the General Intelligence Office and General Counterintelligence Office, under the control of Mr. Chávez

Full Article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/world/americas/03venez.html?_r=1&ref=americas&oref=slogin (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/world/americas/03venez.html?_r=1&ref=americas&oref=slogin)

Title: Re: Hugo Chávez Decree Tightens Hold on Intelligence
Post by: Hugo Chavez on June 02, 2008, 11:25:29 PM

we should do the same.