VENEZUELA’S highest court blocked opposition attempts to carry out a legislative coup against socialist President Nicolas Maduro on Monday.
The right-wing Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) alliance had proposed a constitutional amendment cutting the length of presidential terms from six years to four.
Mr Maduro was elected in April 2013 following the death of his United Socialist Party (PSUV) predecessor Hugo Chavez, who had been re-elected to a third term of office the previous year.
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
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



