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COLOMBIA’S communist rebels are in the running for a new Venezuelan peace prize amid widespread criticism of their snubbing by the Nobel committee.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) were overlooked when Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos scooped the medal and the eight million krona (£750,000) cash prize on Friday.
That was despite the precedent set when the 1993 prize awarded jointly to South African liberation movement leader Nelson Mandela and the last apartheid-era president F W de Klerk.
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 disputed election of a far-right president, who is also a US citizen, signals further consolidation of Washington’s regional power and represents a threat to the country’s democracy and sovereignty, writes WT WHITNEY JNR
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