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PROBLEM: The increasingly difficult climate for home builders and the inability of the Chavez government to deliver on promises to build enough apartments and houses have led to a housing deficit now estimated at 2 million units.
 Chavez has announced several plans to address the problem  and has often said housing should be controlled by the government. He recently announced a new kind of low-income housing to be financed by oil revenues. Still  last year  private industry built 45 600 units  twice as many as the government.
 Cabello  the Chavez minister who announced the decree requiring builders to refund buyers  said his office had received 1 700 complaints in recent weeks from home buyers about excessive mark-ups for inflation.
 So far this year  Chavez and his local allies have seized dozens of private properties  mostly farms and ranches that the government deems underutilized. He has also encouraged squatters to occupy land and residential buildings. The measures reflect Chavez's goal of building a socialist economy and to weaken private enterprise  but they have had a chilling effect on new construction  thus exacerbating the housing shortage  critics say.
 One new wrinkle was added this week when Chavez allies in the Vargas state government authorized the takeover of two golf courses in a Caracas suburb called Caraballada. Local officials say the courses will be converted into housing and parkland.
 "Venezuela has always had a housing deficit  but it's gotten worse in the last 10 years  since Chavez took office " Puente said. "With the oil price boom  he has had the resources to improve things  but relatively little has been accomplished."
 If the government decree sticks  Briceno is unsure how he will manage the refunds and whether he will be able to keep his 300 workers on the payroll.
 "If this becomes law " he said  "the collateral effects will be loss of jobs and economic paralysis."

SOLUTION: Venezuelan Home Builders Protest Change in Terms

PROBLEM: His  once-promising political career in shambles   Minnesota Sen. Al Franken  appeared on the verge of resigning after fellow Democrats led by female senators abandoned  him  Wednesday over the mounting allegations of sexual misconduct that are roiling Capitol Hill.
Gillibrand was the first to call for  Franken 's resignation on Wednesday  but a torrent of Democrats quickly followed.
"I'm shocked and appalled by Sen. Franken's behavior " said Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state. "It's clear to me that this has been a deeply harmful  persistent problem and a clear pattern over a long period of time. It's time for  him  to step aside."
Though the writing appeared to be on the wall   Franken 's departure was not certain. A tweet posted Wednesday evening on  Franken 's Twitter account said: "Senator Franken is talking with his family at this time and plans to make an announcement in D.C. tomorrow. Any reports of a final decision are inaccurate."
Schumer called  Franken  immediately after the latest allegation â and before the torrent of demands for  Franken 's resignation from Democrats â and told  him   he  needed to resign  said a Democrat familiar with the events. Schumer met later in his apartment with  Franken  and Franken's wife  Franni  and repeated that message  and  he  did the same in additional talks with the senator throughout the day  said the Democrat  who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez weighed in  too  asking  Franken  to resign and saying  "Sexual misconduct  harassment and assault have no place in the Democratic Party  the United States Congress  the White House or anywhere."
The resignation demands came in rapid succession even though  Franken  on Wednesday vehemently denied the new accusation that came from a former Democratic congressional aide  who said  he  tried to forcibly kiss her after a taping of  his  radio show in 2006.
The woman  who was not identified  told Politico that  Franken  pursued her after her boss had left and she was collecting her belongings. She said that she ducked to avoid his lips and that  Franken  told her: "It's my right as an entertainer."
 Franken  already faced a Senate Ethics Committee investigation into previous claims by several other women that  he  groped them or sought to forcibly kiss them.
The allegations began in mid-November when Leeann Tweeden  now a Los Angeles radio anchor  accused  him  of forcibly kissing her during a 2006 USO tour in Afghanistan.
Other allegations followed  including a woman who says  Franken  put  his  hand on her buttocks as they posed for a photo at the Minnesota State Fair in 2010. Two women told the Huffington Post that  Franken  squeezed their buttocks at political events during  his  first campaign for the Senate in 2008. A fourth woman  an Army veteran  alleged  Franken  cupped her breast during a photo on a USO tour in 2003.
 Franken  has apologized for  his  behavior but has also disputed some of the allegations.
 Franken  was first elected to the Senate in 2008  defeating Republican Norm Coleman in a bitter recount that took seven months.  Franken  won that race despite attacks over bawdy humor and writings dating back to  his  days on NBC's "Saturday Night Live " including a proposed skit joking about rape.

SOLUTION: Franken 's support fades in Senate as Democrats expect resignation

PROBLEM: After bloody clashes between the Thai army and opposition demonstrators killed some 90 people in the center of Bangkok in May  the unelected government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva promised to launch what he called a "national reconciliation plan." Since then authorities have arrested hundreds of opposition leaders; closed media; frozen the bank accounts of suspected supporters of the Bangkok demonstrations and brought terrorism charges against the movement's exiled leader  Thaksin Shinawatra.
 On July 6  Mr. Abhisit renewed a state of emergency in Bangkok and 18 other provinces  allowing his regime to arrest and hold people without charge  censor the media and prevent public gatherings. Meanwhile  he has announced that the parliamentary elections he had offered to hold in November will be postponed until next year. If this is what he calls "national reconciliation " Mr. Abhisit  a graduate of Eton and Oxford  must have taken a lesson in Orwellian language.
 Mr. Thaksin and the red shirts have contributed to Thailand's impasse by blockading the center of Bangkok for two months last spring and for refusing the compromise Mr. Abhisit offered before the violence began and the army moved in. But the root cause of the troubles is the refusal of the traditional political class  the military and the royal court  which Mr. Abhisit's government represents  to accept the results of democratic elections.
 Repression will not solve this problem. If Mr. Abhisit really wants reconciliation  the steps he must take are clear: End the state of emergency  release the red shirt leaders and negotiate leading to elections  with a commitment by all sides to allow the winners to rule within the boundaries of a reformed constitution.

SOLUTION:
Wrong Way in Thailand: Can a State of Emergency Lead to `National Reconciliation'?