Caracas Daily Journal (Jeremy Morgan): National Assembly (AN) deputy Calixto Ortega defended the new laws on intelligence services as the entirely predictable division of opinions about Interior and Justice Minister Ramon Rodriguez Chacin's plan showed few signs of abating.
Ortega claimed the new structure would bring "transparency" to the secret services, and he urged the Catholic Church to state its position. Information about the new law was being "grotesquely distorted," he claimed, pointing at privately-owned channel Globovision.
Two of the existing services, the state security directive, Disip, and its military equivalent, DIM, are to be disbanded within the next year. The intelligence community is to be restructured into four services, two under civilian control and the others under the Defense Ministry.
Critics say the plan decreed into law by President Hugo Chavez sets powers to spy on the public and encourage citizens to inform on each other. Officials insist change is needed because existing services are "infiltrated."
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