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Weekly Report - 20 March 2014 (WR-14-11)

VENEZUELA: Pointing to the Exit

The government led by President Nicolás Maduro says its tough security response to the continuing daily street protests in parts of the capital Caracas and western cities is necessary to restore civic order and ‘pacify’ the six-week long rebellion it says is being staged against it by a bunch of far right-wing fanatics, financed (and potentially armed and trained) by sympathisers in neighbouring Colombia and the US. This week the government moved against further elected representatives of the political party, Voluntad Popular (VP), accusing them of concerted destabilisation efforts. The aim is to isolate and neutralise this hard-line dissident opposition wing, and put pressure on the moderate main opposition leader, Henrique Capriles Radonski, to take a step towards the negotiating table being sponsored by the regional inter-governmental bloc, the Union of South American Nations (Unasur).

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