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CRACKS showed in the US-led front against Venezuela at the weekend as Caracas sought to win over Mexico and Panama.
The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that President Nicolas Maduro had spoken to his Mexican and Panamanian counterparts Enrique Pena Nieto and Juan Carlos Varela, who offered solidarity and support.
A statement last week by 14 Organisation of American States (OAS) members, including the US and Panama, had echoed the demands of Venezuela’s Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) opposition in calling for early presidential elections and the release of “political prisoners” — chiefly far-right Popular Will (VP) leader Leopoldo Lopez.
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
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