President Hugo Chávez' Sunday resumed his weekly radio and TV show "Aló, Presidente!" -following a two-month suspension- at La Vergareña estate, in southern Bolívar state, which he called the "largest estate in Venezuela (187,000 hectares) and which now become a socialist development and production core."

Chávez ordered governors nationwide to help eradicate large estates. "I demand all the relevant governors to help the revolutionary government and the National Lands Institute (INTI) to help rescue the lands in large estates, regardless of who owns them.

He claimed that "some alleged revolutionary people" are defending large estate owners.

"Nobody is untouchable," he said and ordered the Agriculture and Land minister Elías Jaua to seize the lands in a large estate owned by a person close to Chávez' revolution whose name the President did not disclose.

Further, Chávez asked to intensify the fight against corruption in local police corps, rejecting an attack against peasant leader and lawmaker Braulio Álvarez. Chávez criticized impunity and urged the minister of the Interior and Justice Jesse Chacón and the head of the Scientific, Penal and Criminology Investigation Agency (Cicpc) Marcos Chávez to resign from their positions if they could not fight crime. He asked them to protect the peasant leaders trying to eradicate large estates and who have been the targets of hired assassins.