NOW You Can Squeal About Dictatorship

Venezuela's National Assembly has granted President Nicolas Maduro wide-ranging special powers to rule by decree for one year, a move that he has said is necessary to fully tackle the country's spiraling inflation.

The decree will essentially allow the president to create laws without parliamentary approval.

  Aljazeera

The US press and political elite were constantly badmouthing and calling Hugo Chavez a dictator. Apparently some still would like to lay that label on him, so that when Ryan Craggs of the Huffington Post reported a recent comment by Maduro who said "he saw a distinct correlation between youth violence and superhero idolization," Craggs had to preface it with: 

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has carried the torch from his predecessor Hugo Chavez with zeal, regularly denouncing the politics and culture of the United States. It comes as little surprise, then, that Maduro would have a peculiar explanation of what lies at the root of violence in Venezuela.

  HuffPo

Nice stretch. Superhero idolization = denouncing politics and culture of the US.

Get over it.  Hugo Chavez is dead. 

And just how far from presidential decrees are presidential signing statements?

Or this?

Just this month (Sept.), the President pressured Congress to grant him extra-constitutional authority, known as “Fast Track,” to complete the TPP without congressional scrutiny.

  Disinfo

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.