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Weekly Report - 19 December 2006
Chávez seeks to fuse rival factions to pave way for new socialism
The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez , is trying to bring together the competing factions within the Chavista movement. He hopes that the formation of a new party, the Partido Socialista Unitario de Venezuela (PSUV), will enable him to forge ahead with his ill-defined "21st century socialism". It will also allow him to exert more control over the 21 disparate groups within the ruling coalition.
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