Weekly Report - 27 September 2012 (WR-12-38)

As presidential elections approach on 7 October, the opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski is showing off his colours as a political chameleon. Capriles appealed to moderate right-wingers by meeting Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos on 19 September and publicly distancing himself from Santos’ predecessor Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010). He then reached out to moderate leftists by stressing that he would model himself on Brazil’s former president Lula da Silva (2003-2010). He then made a gesture to more radical leftists by promising to maintain Venezuela’s membership of President Hugo Chávez’s bloc Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América (Alba).

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