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Chavez Takes Over Intelligence Agencies

Extends domestic spying and requires citizens to be informers

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 3, 2008 10:24 AM CDT

(Newser) – Hugo Chavez has ordered a draconian restructuring of Venezuela’s intelligence agencies, bringing them under his personal control, increasing domestic spying powers, and levying prison sentences on citizens who decline to cooperate, the New York Times reports. One justice on Venezuela’s top court expressed...   Read full story »

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