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VENEZUELA’S opposition-controlled parliament has passed a new law to free anti-government terrorists and other criminals.
The so-called Amnesty Law, passed on Tuesday night, would pardon a wide range of crimes committed between January 1 1999 — a month before the late president Hugo Chavez’s first election victory — and the present.
United Socialist Party (PSUV) President Nicolas Maduro condemned the legislation from the Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) alliance and vowed to veto it.
Concessions to Washington by the post-Maduro leadership in Caracas are designed to preserve the core of the Bolivarian Revolution not betray it, argue Roger D Harris, Francisco Dominguez and Mara Paez Victor. How the solidarity movement responds is critical
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
