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VENEZUELAN state officials confirmed on Thursday that the right-wing opposition’s current wave of violent protests has led to five deaths in the past fortnight.
Far-right Popular Will party youth organiser Hasler Iglesias blamed President Nicolas Maduro’s administration for the deaths, claiming: “These are the dictatorship’s assassinations.”
Opposition National Assembly member Alfonso Marquina echoed these allegations, alleging that “police are terrorising our communities.”
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
The corporate media have been quick to point the finger over the murder of a Nicaraguan opposition figure, but where is the actual evidence, ask KELLY NELSON and ROGER D HARRIS
