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Weekly Report - 21 January 2016 (WR-16-03)

VENEZUELA: Maduro declares emergency

On 15 January President Nicolás Maduro declared a 60-day economic emergency to deal with the severe economic crisis in Venezuela. The state of emergency would allow Maduro to govern by decree for two months, extendable for another two. The new opposition-controlled national assembly asserted that it retained the power to approve or reject the decree and would take eight days to examine it. In the meantime, however, the supreme court gave the law its approval, ruling on 20 January that it was constitutional.

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