Venezuela warns against 'destabilization' efforts

(Press TV) -- Venezuela's Attorney General, Luisa Ortega, has accused the opposition of orchestrating efforts in a bid to 'destabilize' the establishment and vowed tough action.

The country's top prosecutor has pledged to press charges against 'rowdy' protesters, allegedly organized by the opposition, in order to stave off 'chaos'.

Demonstrators have staged sporadic anti-government protests in the capital Caracas in a show of dissent on a recent education law that purportedly indoctrinates pro-Bolivarian revolutionary sets of guidelines in order to shore up support for President Hugo Chavez.

However, the Hispanic nation's legal authority has rejected the allegation and challenged those who seek to perturb the establishment via disturbing ' the tranquility and the public peace' of the state.

Ortega cautioned demonstrators against aggressive behavior, noting that indictments of such gravity would carry prison sentences of up to 24 years, should protesters be found guilty of 'civil rebellion'.

"All they want is to destabilize," she said. "The Public Ministry won't allow this to continue."

Meanwhile, members of the opposition have voiced concern about the latest government move, calling it 'a funeral for democracy'.

Venezuela has continued on its path of leftist policies since Chavez assumed power as the president in 1999.

In line with the Venezuelan leader's Bolivarian social reforms, a large number of companies and firms have thus far become nationalized and opposition claim that the enlargement of a centralized polity would lead to authoritarianism.