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5. Marco Aurélio Garcia sees no instability in Venezuela (Google translation)

Marco Aurélio Garcia sees no instability in Venezuela
January 7, 2013 • 20h13 • updated January 7, 2013 at 23h27

The Brazil ignores any instability in Venezuela surrounding the absence of President Hugo Chavez at the induction ceremony, scheduled for next January 10, and considers that the Venezuelan Constitution provides mechanisms for succession later, on Monday said the aide Special chair for international affairs, Marco Aurelio Garcia.

Marco Aurélio Garcia, who described the state of health of Chavez's "serious", traveled to Havana on Dec. 31 to meet with the vice president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, Cuban President Raul Castro and his brother Fidel Castro

"The information I got (in Havana) is that in the event that President Chavez could not attend Caracas (the 10th), there will be a constitutional cover" which provides the procedures, Garcia said at a news conference in Brasilia.

According to the special advisor to the president, there is a "period" of 90 days, extendable for another 90 days, before declaring the absence of the president and call for new elections in 30 days.

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