Weekly Report - 19 July 2012 (WR-12-28)

President Hugo Chávez was “compelled by circumstances” to speak out this week in order to “unmask” the man who “says he is going to be commander-in-chief”. Chávez was responding to a message from Henrique Capriles Radonski, the presidential candidate for the opposition coalition Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD), directed at the armed forces, which was aired on private television stations on 12 July.