Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
SINCE the right-wing opposition won a majority of National Assembly seats in the 2015 election, President Nicolas Maduro has withstood multiple rightwing attempts to remove him though undemocratic means before his constitutional term ends in 2019.
Faced with their failure to “finish the job” of removing Maduro, the Venezuelan right’s US mentors and financiers have decided to change tack and mobilise resources in the international arena to bring about regime change through external pressure.
In typical fashion, the US has been seeking a financial and economic blockade of Venezuela, aimed at intensifying the negative consequences of the ongoing economic war against its population, especially the poor.
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
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
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
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ says the US’s bullying conduct in what it considers its backyard is a bid to reassert imperial primacy over a rising China — but it faces huge resistance



