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Weekly Report - 26 November 2015 (WR-15-47)
VENEZUELA: On a knife-edge
The apparent assassination of an opposition candidate lays bare mounting tensions in Venezuela with just a fortnight to go until legislative elections on 6 December, ahead of which all polls now indicate that the ruling Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV) may lose its majority control of the unicameral national assembly. Evidencing some panic (if not outright desperation) in official circles, President Nicolás Maduro has resorted to threatening PSUV members not to betray the legacy of his late predecessor and founder of the Bolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chávez (1999-2013).
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