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Andean Group - June 2017 (ISSN 1741-4466)
Problems in the military may edge Venezuela to a tipping point
Attorney General Luisa Ortega Díaz continues to rail against the government led by President Nicolás Maduro, telling Peru’s leading daily, El Comercio, on 26 June that Venezuela was no longer a State of law, but a police state, and accusing the Bolivarian intelligence agency Sebin of dictating orders to a judiciary now subjugated to “a repressive police logic”. “Here [in Venezuela], the cart is before the horses”, she quipped, adding that the supreme court (TSJ) had moved to erect “a totalitarian court that interprets and manipulates the constitution in line with its political interests”.
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