(Photo: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/02/15/world/20090215-VENEZ_13.html)
Chavez wins chance of fresh term
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7891856.stm
Venezuelans have voted to lift limits on terms in office for elected officials, allowing President Hugo Chavez to stand for re-election.
With 94% of votes counted, 54% backed an end to term limits, a National Electoral Council official said.
A proposal to end presidential term limits was one of a package of 69 constitutional changes narrowly rejected in a referendum in late 2007.
Chávez Decisively Wins Bid to End Term Limits
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/world/americas/16venez.html?_r=1&ref=world
At the risk of polarizing Venezuela’s deeply divided society further, the victory could also strengthen Mr. Chávez’s current mandate as he reacts to a sharp fall in the price of oil, the export commodity that has financed his broadly popular poverty-reduction projects.
At polling stations here, the sway of Mr. Chávez’s ideology, which combines elements of Christian liberation theology and oil-financed social welfare projects with a fierce rejection of Washington’s policies in Latin America, influenced some voters.
ベネズエラのチェベス大統領の任期が無制限になった。
西側がなんと言おうが、ベネズエラは指紋認証まで導入して、選挙を行った上での結果である。
反米の独裁者として描かれるけれども、実際のところ賛成票は54%である。
2008年のインフレは31%とラテンアメリカで最も高く、
カラカスの食料価格も50%近く上がっている。
1998年は石油は前輸出の64%を占めていたが、現在は90%。
石油価格の下落は、彼の唱える社会主義的な政策を難しくするだろう。（The Economists.7/Feb/2009, P13)
2007年に任期制限撤廃は国民に却下されているし、
昨年の地方選挙では、野党が躍進した。
民主的な政治的枠組みは、チェベスに合法的な独裁を許したが、
彼がその枠組みを壊さない限り、諸刃の剣となりうる。
石油価格が底を打ち生活が厳しくなる中で、
ブッシュないアメリカを鏡にした反米で、国民感情を煽ることも難しくなった今、
チェベスが生き残る道は、独裁を強化するか、経済を回復させるかのどちらかだろう。
G7 pledges to avoid protectionism
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7889222.stm
"All countries need to sustain a commitment to open trade and investment policies which are essential to economic growth and prosperity," he said.
Ministers also called for urgent reform to the International Monetary Fund, saying the crisis had shown weaknesses in the world financial system.
"We agree that a reformed IMF, endowed with additional resources, is crucial to respond effectively and and flexibly to the current crisis," the ministers' statement said.
Other points included:
Praise for recent economic moves by China;
Help for banks; and
The need for a speedy end to the Doha talks on world trade
Japan boosts support for trade finance programme
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1685438c-fabf-11dd-bda0-000077b07658.html
Japan has boosted support for a World Bank programme to support trade finance and finalised an agreement to lend $100bn to the International Monetary Fund to combat the global financial crisis.
Tokyo’s $1bn commitment to easing trade finance – in partnership with the International Finance Corporation, the private-sector arm of the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank - comes in the face of a widespread global shortage of trade credit lines.
The $100bn Japanese contribution to the IMF was recently agreed by the fund’s executive board. It will increase markedly the resources immediately available to the fund in the short term, which currently total $142bn.
US Congress passes stimulus plan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7889897.stm
The US Senate has voted in favour of Barack Obama's $787bn (£548bn) economic stimulus plan - clearing the way for it to be signed into law.
シカゴ商取、農産物先物に持ち高制限
http://www.nikkei.co.jp/news/kaigai/20090216AT2M1600B16022009.html
大量の投資マネーの流出入がトウモロコシなどの先物価格を乱高下させて農家の経営に悪影響を与えていると判断。新政権移行に伴って米商品先物取引委員会（ＣＦＴＣ）も規制強化の意向を表明しており、新ルールの導入を認めた。
農家や穀物メジャーなどの実需家以外がトウモロコシや小麦、大豆、コメ先物などの期近物を取引する場合が対象となる。
Japan's economy in quarterly dive
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7891849.stm
There were reports over the weekend that he is considering another stimulus package of government spending worth 20 trillion yen ($218bn; £152bn).
But the latest opinion poll has showed that fewer than 10% of people support the prime minister, who must call a general election by September.
Global woe brings Japanese local pain (+figures)
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4d6cd9b8-fb83-11dd-bcad-000077b07658.html
円、91円台後半に小幅続落 ＧＤＰ悪化は「予想の範囲内」
http://www.nikkei.co.jp/news/keizai/20090216AT2C1600516022009.html
ＴＶ・パソコン・ビデオ…電源コード不要に 15年実用化へ官民
http://it.nikkei.co.jp/digital/news/index.aspx?n=AS1C13008%2013022009&landing=Next
明日の注目
GMとクライスラー、米政府への再建計画の提出期限
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