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Weekly Report - 04 June 2015 (WR-15-22)
VENEZUELA: Pope Francis keeps the faith
Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro will meet Pope Francis in Rome on 7 June. This will be the second time Maduro has met the Pope. His audience this time may be a little awkward in light of the almost two-week-old hunger strike by jailed opposition politicians, including Leopoldo López, head of the radical party Voluntad Popular (VP). López began the strike on 31 May along with his colleague, the sacked former mayor of San Cristóbal, Daniel Ceballos; some 15 other jailed opposition activists are now also said to have joined in the protest, prompting renewed international focus on Venezuela.
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