"I started listening to criticism and in the end, I think there are some mistakes there," Chavez said

Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, has revoked a law he decreed last month creating four spy agencies and a Cuban-style national informants' network. 'I started listening to criticism and in the end, I think there are some mistakes there,' Chavez said on Saturday during a function of the ruling United Socialist Party (PSUV) of Venezuela. The law, which the government said was needed to block US interference in Venezuelan affairs, made it a crime to refuse to co-operate with intelligence agencies and to publish information deemed 'secret or confidential'. The intelligence and counter-intelligence law was approved in the end of May but is now temporarily declared null and will be modified to correct 'some mistakes'. 'I have no problem acknowledging it, so I decided this morning to correct that law,' Chavez said.