Chavez Announces Indefinite Reelection Campaign

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has launched a campaign to get popular support for a referendum to approve indefinite presidential reelections, currently prohibited under the country’s constitution. Chavez has asked his supporters to help him get at least 7.3 million votes in favor of a constitutional amendment that will allow him to run for President again in 2013, when his current presidential term comes to an end. "Those who want to be a colony, those who want to be enslaved, those who want to be vassals of capitalism, go with them! … Those who want happiness for his sons and daughters, come with me," wrote Chavez on a public board in a plaza in Caracas. The Venezuelan opposition has called this initiative illegal and is promising to fight it in the streets and polls.