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Weekly Report - 16 June 2011 (WR-11-24)

VENEZUELA: Alphabet game gets harder for Chávez

President Hugo Chávez likes talking about the three R's - revision, rectification and re-impulso (renewed impulse) - but over the last week he has been hit hard by three P's – pelvic abscess, power and prisons. He was forced to have an emergency operation in Cuba to solve the first, and most personal, of the three P's: while convalescing there a massive power cut in Venezuela's western states compelled his government to roll out rationing once again; then 19 people were killed in the worst prison riot since he came to power in 1999. Meanwhile, the national assembly approved a massive debt issuance to finance the fourth "P" - public spending - ahead of the fifth and most important "P" - presidential elections - in December 2012.

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