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VENEZUELA’S right-wing Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) has fallen just short of a two-thirds “supermajority,” late parliamentary election results showed on Monday.
The updated results from the National Electoral Council gave the US-backed MUD coalition 107 confirmed seats in the 167-member National Assembly.
The Great Patriotic Pole alliance, which includes President Nicolas Maduro’s United Socialist Party (PSUV), was left with just 55 seats in Sunday’s election, almost halving its share from 99 in the 2010 election.
Concessions to Washington by the post-Maduro leadership in Caracas are designed to preserve the core of the Bolivarian Revolution not betray it, argue Roger D Harris, Francisco Dominguez and Mara Paez Victor. How the solidarity movement responds is critical
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
