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Weekly Report - 31 July 2014 (WR-14-30)
VENEZUELA-US: Maduro passes two tests
Formally at least President Nicolás Maduro passed his first test, the political one. The third congress of the ruling Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV) elected him party president ‘by acclamation’ (and proclaimed the late former president Hugo Chávez [1999-2013] their “eternal leader”). Predictably enough, there was no manifestation at the event of the internal turmoil in the party. Maduro also passed another test, this time in the diplomatic arena: he was able to present to the congress as a ‘hero’ former military intelligence chief Hugo Carvajal, wrested from the hands of the US.
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