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Weekly Report - 12 January 2017 (WR-17-01)

VENEZUELA: Stumbling into another year

“Nicolás Maduro wants a coup” was the title of the 11 January editorial in Venezuela’s leading daily, El Nacional, which argued that President Maduro’s accusations of opposition coup-mongering are nothing more than an excuse “to accentuate the repressive scene that is being built up, step by step, to progressively create a ring of fear and silence in the population”. “And those [ruling party] militants and sympathisers who view with disgust and sorrow how the poor scrabble through bags of rubbish to sate their hunger will not escape from this military and police siege,” it added.

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