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Chavez renews conflict with Venezuelan bishops July 04, 2007
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has renewed his attacks on the country's Catholic hierarchy, saying that the Venezuelan bishops' conference had misled the public by criticizing his plans for constitutional revisions.
"It saddens me to see these bishops from our Catholic Church lie," Chavez said during a July 3 television address. "They are either ignorant, perverse, or perverts."
The Venezuelan leader was responding to a statement by Archbishop Ubaldo Ramon Santana of Maracaibo, the president of the Venezuelan episcopal conference, questioning the plans for constitutional revisions. Chavez has appointed a committee to draft amendments working without publicity. The Catholic bishops have argued that the process should be open to the public.
The Venezuelan bishops have frequently chided Chavez for his strongarm political tactics and his efforts to centralize power in his presidential administration.
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