Weekly Report - 20 September 2012 (WR-12-37)

“They fired at Capriles but the bullet missed,” Leopoldo López, the national campaign coordinator of Henrique Capriles Radonski, the presidential candidate of the opposition coalition Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD), said this week. Lόpez was not referring to radical supporters of President Hugo Chávez who fired shots at Capriles and his campaign team during a visit to the Caracas barrio of Cotiza last March, but rather the ruling Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV), which accused a MUD deputy last week of accepting bribes. Capriles reacted quickly by expelling the deputy.

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