the assembly voted to give it to him, and again, our assistant secretary of state, tom shannon, said, "well, that's constitutional." and, you know, he didn't abuse it, by the way. i mean, there wasn't anything that he ruled against, he ruled or did anything. it was mainly used against foreign companies in order to do some of these nationalizations that you talked about, which, by the way, are a lot less than a lot of other countries--certainly less than bolivia. and the state in venezuela is still a lot smaller in its role in the economy than the state in france, for example. so this is--you know, everything you hear about venezuela is exaggerated. you're getting the tea party view of venezuela here in the united states. >> what about--he says that the view is exaggerated. one of the things that a lot of americans are concerned about is pursuing businesspeople--barrueco...i mean, i can name a whole bunch of them who have either been put into prison or have been--escaped the country because of charges, and some people say that's because chavez wants to nationalize their businesses or t