Enabling act (Venezuela)
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In Venezuela, an enabling act was passed in mid 2000 by Hugo Chávez enabling him to rule by decree on selected issues related to the economy, reorganization of government ministries, and crime for one year. Chávez did not take advantage of this act until shortly before its expiration, when he passed 49 decrees in rapid succession, many of them highly controversial.[1][2][3]