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Weekly Report - 18 June 2009 (WR-09-24)
VENEZUELA: Chávez takes fight to opposition governors
President Hugo Chávez accused the opposition governors of Táchira and
Zulia this week of leading “a counter-revolution", and of nurturing a “nest of
paramilitaries". Neither claim is new. The circumstances in which they were made
are new though. Chávez was emboldened by his referendum triumph in February to
tackle opposition regional governors. He appointed a head of government for the
city of Caracas in April to supplant, in all but name, the current opposition
mayor of Greater Caracas, Antonio Ledezma. He will shortly handpick regional
presidents whose powers will supersede those of elected governors and mayors,
before important legislative elections next year.
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