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Weekly Report - 26 September 2006
Chávez may be proving his own worst enemy on the regional diplomatic scene
It was probably the most surreal spectacle the UN General Assembly had witnessed since Nikita Khruschev's shoe-banging episode in September 1960. On 20 September Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez launched a tirade against his US counterpart, George W Bush, proclaiming, 'Yesterday the devil was here. This place reeks of sulphur.' Unlike Khruschev, Chávez was seeking a very concrete result from his outburst; that the Assembly should back his country's candidacy for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council in 2007-08. In a week in which Chávez and Venezuela attracted much negative media attention for other reasons, many analysts wonder if he did not manage to undo all the work his diplomats had put into the same effort over many months.
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