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Chavez for New Geometry of Power
Venezuela s President Hugo
Chavez begins a new mandate
supported by a renovated cabinet
and important challenges whose
aim is to strengthen the
Bolivarian revolutionary
process.
The statesman s mandate rests on
27 ministries, including the two
recently created
Telecommunications and
Indigenous Peoples Ministries,
with Jesse Chacon and Nizia
Maldonado as ministers.
Recent Chavez changes include
the new vice president Jorge
Rodriguez, a bona fide
psychologist who substituted
Jose Vicente Rangel.
Pedro Carreño was appointed as
Interior and Justice Minister,
Rodrigo Cabezas as Finances
Minister, Erick Rodriguez as
Health Minister, David Velasquez
as Popular Participation
Minister and Hugo Cabezas as
Presidency Minister.
Adan Chavez became Education
Minister, Hector Navarro as
Science and Technology Minister,
Yubiri Ortega Environment and
Natural Resources Minister, Jose
Ramon Rivero as Work Minister,
Olga Azuaje as Tourism Minister
and Luis Acuña as Higher
Education Minister.
The Energy and Oil Minister is
Rafael Ramirez, Planning and
Development Minister Jorge
Giordani, Foreign Minister
Nicolas Maduro, Defense Minister
Raul Baduel, Culture Minister
Francisco Sesto, Housing and
Habitat Minister Ramon
Carrizalez and Sports Minister
Eduardo Alvarez remain in their
posts.
Among other short-term
priorities, Chavez mentioned
constitutional socialist reform,
popular education, a "new
geometry of power" and promotion
of municipal functions.
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