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Security & Strategic Review - November 2014 (ISSN 1741-4202)
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VENEZUELA | ‘Revolution’ in the police. On 27 October President Nicolás Maduro announced that he would carry out ‘a revolution in the police’ for which he will create a presidential commission to be headed by himself and his new minister of the interior, justice & peace, Carmen Meléndez. The latter had been shunted three days earlier from her post as defence minister after the previous interior minister, Miguel Rodríguez Torres, resigned.
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