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Weekly Report - 05 January 2012 (WR-12-01)

Quotes of the week

“This is very, very, very strange: first Lugo, then Dilma when she was a candidate… then me as I enter an electoral year, then Lula and now Cristina… Would it be that strange if they had developed technology to induce cancer without anyone knowing about it?”

The insinuation by Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez that the US might be behind the wave of cancer afflicting Latin American heads of state is condemned by the US State Department as “horrific and reprehensible”.

“At the same time as we are updating our socialism, changing everything that needs to be changed, the US government is still anchored in the past.”


President Raúl Castro accuses the US of showing “a lack of political will” to improve ties with Cuba.

“Reason must prevail over any ideology.”

Peru’s prime minister Oscar Valdés.

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