16-04-2014: Latin American Weekly Report

Protests are continuing in Venezuela, though with less intensity than in March and at least one radical opposition faction and the students are determined to keep them going. The much-trumpeted ‘dialogue’ between the government and the rest of the opposition has already held two sessions, the first not going beyond public restatements of known posi- tions, the second a closed-door ‘preparatory’ event during which little of substance was agreed.