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Weekly Report - 31 August 2017 (WR-17-34)

VENEZUELA: Playing the victim, playing for time

To no surprise, President Nicolás Maduro immediately seized upon the new US economic sanctions against Venezuela to play the victim, casting the radical left-wing Bolivarian Revolution as the target of a US-backed international right-wing conspiracy, whose main aim is to invade Venezuela militarily and seize its oil. It is a very tired argument, yet inexhaustible in its utility for Maduro.

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