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Weekly Report - 11 October 2018 (WR-18-40)
VENEZUELA: Political polarisation deepens
The president of Venezuela’s national constituent assembly (ANC), Diosdado Cabello, organised a demonstration for peace in central Caracas on 5 October. This professed commitment to peace and dialogue was belied by an incident three days later which won international condemnation: a councillor representing the political opposition, who was arrested without a warrant and taken to the headquarters of the national intelligence agency (Sebin), died, officially from suicide.
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