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Maduro Hands Wide-Ranging Powers to Venezuela’s Vice President

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  • President’s move stokes speculation over potentional successor
  • Vice president’s office has been largely powerless since 2013
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, right, and vice president Tareck El Aissami.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, right, and vice president Tareck El Aissami.

 Photographer: Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has given his vice president wide-reaching decree powers, including the ability to determine ministries’ spending plans and expropriate private businesses, in a move that has fueled speculation over possible succession plans.

Tareck El Aissami, appointed by Maduro as vice president this month, is now authorized to issue economic orders that affect everything from taxes to foreign currency allotments for state-owned companies, according to the official gazette dated Jan. 26 and distributed Monday.