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Weekly Report - 17 January 2013 (WR-13-02)

Havana at the hub of history-shaping events

Two potentially seminal moments in Latin American history are unfolding in Havana. Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez has for some time defied those who have predicted his swift demise, but his return to power now looks highly unlikely: all direct communication from him has dried up - he has not even been seen clutching a dated copy of Granma as a ‘proof of life’ - and all the great and the good are travelling to Cuba in the hope of meeting him, although they are not making it past the anteroom. Peace talks between the Colombian government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc), supported by Chávez, also resumed in Havana this week (see page 3) with moderate optimism that the continent’s longest-running armed conflict is reaching its denouement.

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