Weekly Report - 22 January 2009 (ISSN 1741-7422)

President Hugo Chávez accused Barack Obama this week of interfering in the campaign in Venezuela ahead of the referendum on continuous re-election on 15 February. Chávez was responding to criticism from Obama, days before his inauguration on 20 January, that he was an obstacle to progress in Latin America who exported terrorism. Aware of how popular Obama is in the region, Chávez has been weighing up his opponent and appears to have decided that the most effective way of engaging him is to portray him as a pawn in the imperial machine; not intrinsically evil like his predecessor, but powerless to effect the change he is promising.

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