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Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the economist.

Today, from London, I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

The cartoonist Charles Schultz would have been a hundred this year,

but his most famous creation, the comic strip Peanuts,

of course, carries on. We consider how Peanuts serves as a seemingly innocuous window into brutal

human nature. And because it's that time of year, we take a look at a Charlie Brown Christmas.

The first time Peanuts characters moved off the page and onto screens.

But we also take a listen.

Once they made that jump, they needed a soundtrack too.

First up, though... In Venezuela today, it's the end of a kind of parallel universe.

The proposal would be the elimination of the

government interino, a exception of three instances that we consider are necessary.

The country's opposition parties voted strongly in favor of

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