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Weekly Report - 09 January 2014 (WR-14-01)
VENEZUELA: Maduro pledges ‘Pacification Plan’ after ex-Miss murder
On 8 January Venezuela’s main opposition leaders, Henrique Capriles Radonski and Henri Falcón, the respective state governors of Miranda and Lara, sat down with President Nicolás Maduro, Interior & Justice Minister Miguel RodrÃguez Torres, and governors and mayors from the 79 municipalities most affected by criminality to discuss new measures to tackle the extreme violence afflicting the country. Maduro announced a ‘Pacification Plan’, to be implemented by presidential decree and rolled out across the country within a month.
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