Weekly Report - 15 August 2013 (WR-13-32)

President Nicolás Maduro has called a national emergency in Venezuela to combat corruption, for which he is seeking special powers. He has not clarified exactly what these special powers might be but in order to begin a decidedly vague “process to reform laws and change institutions” he must mean the enabling law which his predecessor and mentor, the late president Hugo Chávez (1999-2013) habitually pushed through a pliant national assembly in order to gain stretches of 18 months in which to rule by decree on the pretext of responding to a specific crisis.

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