On December 4, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez called the opposition’s eleventh-hour decision to withdraw from the country’s congressional elections an attempted “coup” and pledged that his government would respond with a “counter-coup.” He added that every time the opposition attempts to force him out of power, his government “deepens the process of transformation.” Evidently, changes in store for 2006 will go… return to article
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