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Weekly Report - 22 March 2012 (WR-12-12)
VENEZUELA: Chávez slips off the pace
President Hugo Chávez is back in Caracas, but there are clear signs that he has lost control of events, despite his protestations that he has been able to run the show during his absence in Havana to undergo treatment for cancer. Soon after his return, Chávez tried to regain the initiative. He maintained that the Bolivarian intelligence service (Sebin) had detected a threat to the security of “the bourgeois candidate” Henrique Capriles Radonski, his rival in October’s presidential elections. This threat, he said, comes “not from the government, but members of the opposition”. He also accused Capriles of “using lies to generate fear” after he denounced failings in water treatment in the state of Miranda which he governs. Capriles was drawing attention to the large oil spill in the eastern state of Monagas last month, which the government has mishandled, exposing disunity within the ruling Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV).
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