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Weekly Report - 17 August 2017 (WR-17-32)
VENEZUELA: Constituent assembly spreads its tentacles
The newly installed national constituent assembly (ANC) pledged to take immediate measures to tackle Venezuela’s deep economic crisis and to heal the country’s bitter political impasse. President Nicolás Maduro said the ANC was necessary to bring Venezuelans together in a ‘grand national dialogue’. So far, it has done nothing at all on the economic front, while its sole motive on the political front appears to be the wilful destruction of the opposition.
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