PRESIDENT CHAVEZ SHAKES HANDS WITH ASSEMBLY VICE PRESIDENT RODRIGUEZ AND ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT MIQUILENA, 1999-08-05 (photo)

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (L) shakes hands with Constitutional Assembly Vice President Isaisis Rodriguez (R) as assembly president Luis Miquilena smiles down on a copy of a new constitution which Chavez proposed to the assembly, August 5. Chavez rejected both neoliberal and Marxist ideologies in a speech to the country's new ruling assembly, calling on Venezuelans to invent their own model. The assembly is the centerpiece of what chavez has described as a "peaceful and democratic revolution" in the South American country of 23 million people. KW/SV