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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.
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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
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