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Weekly Report - 3 February 2011 (WR-11-05)

VENEZUELA: New era of cooperation dawns

Cooperation is the name of the game. Ten months ago it would have seemed inconceivable that Venezuela and Colombia could sign a bilateral security cooperation agreement, especially given the palpable tension between the countries before the advent of President Juan Manuel Santos last August. A domestic security alliance between the government of President Hugo Chávez and Pablo Pérez, the governor of the main opposition state of Zulia, would perhaps have seemed even less likely. And yet nascent alliances are now in place in both cases, courtesy of a change of tack by Santos, a dose of humility by Pérez and a realisation by Chávez that deteriorating public security is possibly the biggest threat to his securing re-election in December 2012.

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