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Weekly Report - 19 June 2014 (WR-14-24)

VENEZUELA: With friends like these….

Barely four hours after his removal, the now-former planning minister, Jorge Giordani, launched an excoriating attack on President Nicolás Maduro, accusing him of lacking in leadership and of allowing the country to be steered back towards capitalism by boli-bourgeois elements that have long since lost their Revolutionary zeal. The Monk, as Giordani was nicknamed for his religious devotion to Marxism and his austere lifestyle, was sacrificed on the altar of greed, was the suggestion, and the whole lot was going to hell in a handbasket. Just weeks ahead of the ruling Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV) congress, at which Maduro is supposed to be formally crowned party leader, the timing was impeccable.

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