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

BRAZIL: Brazil's flipflops wear thin

In the space of a week the Brazilian government led by President Dilma Rousseff has gone from a nonchalant, hands-off confidence in Venezuelan democracy to edgy warnings about the importance of a constitutional transition in the event that President Hugo Chávez succumbs to his cancer. The about-turn looked as hypocritical as it did self-interested, and not for the first time opposition critics raced to berate the left-wing ruling Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) for politicising Brazil’s foreign policy, to the detriment of the country’s national interest and its international reputation.

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