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VENEZUELA has hit back at the Organisation of American States’ (OAS) call for its suspension unless the government calls early elections.
In a report released on Tuesday, Washington-based OAS secretary-general Luis Almagro accused Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s United Socialist Party of systematically violating the OAS’s democratic charter.
And he backed right-wing opposition demands for a presidential election, a step it failed to achieve last year by the constitutional means of a recall referendum.
Sovereignty and the rule of law are under threat from Trump’s attacks on Lula’s administration just as they have been across Latin America, argue CARLOS MARTINEZ and SARA VIVACQUA
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
The global left must be unwavering in it is support for Venezuela as Washington increases its aggression, and clear-eyed about the West’s cynical motives for targeting it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
US baseless accusations of drug trafficking and the outrageous putting of a bounty on a president of a sovereign country do not bode well, reports PABLO MERIGUET