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Chavez to nation: Quit your boozing!
4.4.07
Caracas Journal
A New Decree From Chávez: Less Elbow-Bending
CARACAS, Venezuela, April 3 — Many Venezuelans shrug off President Hugo Chávez’s increasingly frequent calls to create a New Man through a Socialist revolution. But a decree severely limiting alcohol sales for much of Holy Week has certainly gotten their attention.
“Don’t Mess With My Hooch!” read the main headline in Sunday’s El Nuevo País, an opposition newspaper.
That was one of the more restrained comments heard on this city’s streets after the surprise decree, which Mr. Chávez’s government says is needed to diminish fatalities from drunken driving, went into effect on Friday.
There were protests over the weekend on Margarita Island, where revelers and liquor store owners painted car windshields with the words No to the Dry Law. Consecomercio, a national group of business owners, complained that the measure could lower liquor sales by 60 percent during the important vacation period.
But there were also indications that resourceful Caraqueños, as the city’s residents are called, were finding ways around the restrictions. The rollicking reactions to the alcohol ban stand in sharp contrast to the quietude that has greeted Venezuela’s latest corruption scandals: attempts by Supreme Court justices to avoid paying income taxes on generous bonuses and claims that government officials illegally siphoned off millions of dollars from state infrastructure deals with Iran.
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