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Weekly Report - 27 April 2017 (WR-17-16)

Santos squares up to Maduro

Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos has to-date handled his Venezuelan peer Nicolás Maduro with kid gloves. While ideological allies such as Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri have criticised the undemocratic treatment of Venezuela’s political opposition, Santos has refrained from being drawn. But over the course of the last week, Santos abandoned the diplomatic tact over Venezuela that has prevailed since he took office in 2010. Maduro wasted little time in responding.

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