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Weekly Report - 9 July 2015 (WR-15-27)
Greek resistance rallies regional support
Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has been lionised by Latin America’s Left. The decision by Tsipras to stand up to powerbrokers in the European Union (EU) and call a referendum on a bailout deal on 5 July after withdrawing from talks with creditors struck a chord with ‘progressive’ leftist governments in the region who were swift to express empathy with the ‘victimisation’ of Greece.
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