Spoke too soon...El Piggo already reversed himself on this one. Looks like he's making it up as he goes along. Even he knows he can't alienate his voter base by starving them. The previous article on 'prohibition of street vendors' and the excerpt from the other article listed below are both from the same issue of the same newspaper. This guy announces a new law and then retracts it on the same day. What a moron.

..." Eliminates Executive decree against peddlers

President of the Republic, Hugo Chávez, announced its application to the Vice President, Elias Jaua, to delete the decree published yesterday prohibiting street vending of food. The president noted that more research is there, because "sometimes the public and even private companies that divert food."

"I learned because I was watching news out there, and I called the Vice-Minister of Commerce (Richard Canaan), the Minister of Food (Félix Osorio), because there I saw they signed a resolution prohibiting hawkers food products is a ministerial decision, I think that's wrong, "he said."...

http://www.prensaescrita.com/adiario.php?codigo=&pagina=http://www.nuevaprensa.com.ve