Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez Frias has this afternoon (Tuesday) formalized a decree which repeals the controversial Intelligence & Counterintelligence Act announced last week and says that he will leave it to the nation's Legislature, the National Assembly, to create new legislation to govern intelligence gathering operations.
Chavez says he has heard criticism from various sectors of opposing his new Law and, having consulted with ministers, he decided it was best to repeal it with immediate effect since his government gives priority to respect for human rights and that the law had contained certain provisions that could not rationally be put into effect.
Meanwhile, Chavez has called on the private business sectors to establish strategic alliances with the government, focusing particularly on "downstream" development of factories. "We can make alliances in non-strategic industries ... downstream, for example, in development."
Speaking from the Miraflores Presidential Palace, Chavez said that a further 1,400 workers who had been outsourced by Siderurgica del Orinoco would be 'absorbed' into full-time employment at the now-State-owned SIDOR Iron & Steel complex.
In an aside, President Hugo Chavez Frias denied that Salomon Fernandez (an early candidate for November 23 regional elections) could possibly be his biological son ... but he refuses to submit to DNA tests to disprove paternity since he says there is no valid circumstances that would lead anyone to conclude that he is indeed Fernandez father.
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