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Weekly Report - 15 May 2014 (WR-14-19)

VENEZUELA: Radicals try to fill the vacuum as talks stall

Hours before the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) troika was due back in Caracas in a bid to revive the stalled government-opposition dialogue, the national guard detained over 100 people on 14 May after another night of violence during student-led protests. Diego Scharifker, a councillor for the Caracas municipality of Chacao and a national executive member of the radical opposition party Un Nuevo Tiempo, said it was “a night of terror” and “another dark chapter” in the country’s history.

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