Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro signed, via presidential decree, 28 far-reaching new laws. Taken together they will profoundly change the way the country operates. They are designed to tighten the economic system, ensure a more equitable income distribution, guarantee fair prices, strengthen anti-monopoly regulations, reform the tax system, stimulate national production, and in general, facilitate the emergence of an alternative economic system. Maduro says additional laws will be enacted in the next few days.- Rachael Boothroyd reports from Caracas. teleSUR
