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Weekly Report - 31 May 2012 (WR-12-21)
VENEZUELA: Capriles shoots from the hips
Insecurity, without question, is the main area where the political opposition could make hay ahead of October’s presidential elections. It is the government’s weakest flank – and President Hugo Chávez knows it. Back in the Miraflores palace he announced the imminent launch of a new “mission” to try and address the problem. Meanwhile, the presidential candidate for the opposition coalition Mesa de Unidad Democrática (MUD), Henrique Capriles Radonski, presented his plan to combat insecurity in Venezuela – and this time he went for the jugular.
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