Chavez opponents want him to go now The Supreme Court in Venezuela has suspended an opposition-backed referendum due next month on whether the country's embattled President, Hugo Chavez, should resign. The electoral authorities had set the vote for 2 February after the opposition collected more than two million signatures demanding a referendum on the president's rule. The decision seems set to inflame tensions between Mr Chavez and his opponents - now in their eighth week of a strike that has crippled oil output in the world's fifth biggest exporter. Amid increasing capital flight and a slide in the currency, the...