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JOHN FOSTER interviews Paul Dobson, a member of the International Department of the Venezuelan Communist Party and Committee of International Solidarity, and a journalist at venezuelanalysis.com about the ongoing coup attempt
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ONE week after the attempted right-wing coup in Venezuela, Paul Dobson described the situation across Venezuela as “entirely normal.” All services were functioning. Buses continue to run. People go to work. Water supply continues. Electricity was as before — including, as before, interruptions in supply of perhaps half an hour a week.
Nor were there significant shortages of essential goods or medicines in the shops although a few categories of specialist cancer drugs were off the shelves as a result of the US blockade. The main problem was inflation — though wages were being increased.
The ongoing coup attempt which began the previous week had been contained to two or three neighbourhoods of Caracas with less than 40 fatalities.
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