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A US-LED bid to scupper Venezuela’s constitutional reform process aimed at ending opposition-led violence was defeated by the country’s regional allies on Wednesday.
A special meeting of the Washington-based Organisation of American States (OAS) was suspended after a draft declaration by Peru, Canada, the US, Mexico and Panama failed to gain support.
That motion demanded that Venezuela’s United Socialist Party (PSUV) government halt the ongoing National Constituent Assembly process to make far-reaching amendments to the constitution.
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