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Date Added: June 09, 2008 11:52:02 AM

Venezuelan president reverses himself after criticism, comparison to Bush Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he will rescind a new intelligence law that critics said would have forced citizens to spy on one another while moving the country toward a police state.

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