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[...] the Bush administration has been fully complicit in the elimination of any neutral voices, financing the main opposition parties and, via its National Endowment for Democracy, openly and secretly funding civil society, so undermining organisations that should be respected as neutral actors. Where lobbying, sanctions, direct interference, armed coup attempts and threats have failed, the pro-US, invariably corporate sponsored, anti-Chávez network hopes that international criticism on human rights and freedom may succeed in establishing the climate for civil unrest and the replacement of a democratically elected government.
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Chávez: The Defence
Last week's cover story by Alice O'Keeffe, claiming Hugo Chavez had polarised Venezuela, was a distorted snapshot, devoid of present or historical context. The inference that prior to Chavez, Venezuela was a largely stable generally united society is risible. Venezuela is a nation in flux and one of great import...
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