"Mr Chávez’s heavy-handed reaction to a fairly modest setback—his party

will keep its legislative majority despite losing the popular vote—bodes

poorly for how he might handle a loss in the 2012 presidential

election. If the president’s slow-motion coup is not enough to keep him

in power, might he resort to the more traditional kind? History gives

reason to worry," skriver The Economist om den tvilsomme

menneskerettighetssituasjonen i Venezuela.

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