LATIN AMERICAN nations rejected the European Parliament’s interference in Venezuela’s affairs yesterday after MEPs demanded the release of opposition extremists.
The 11-member Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (Alba) and Venezuela’s MPs issued separate statements in response to the outrageous EU attack.
Foreign ministers from Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Grenada and other Alba nations around the Caribbean had gathered in Caracas for an extraordinary meeting of the bloc’s political council.
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
Sinn Fein’s CHRIS HAZZARD MP addressed the closing rally at Latin America 2026 earlier this month with a reminder that the struggle for national dignity and popular power is no longer regional or symbolic — it is the front line of a global realignment led by organised peoples who refuse to bow to empire. The Star republishes his speech here
The US attack on Venezuela raises grave threats to Cuba and the region, writes NATASHA HICKMAN of Cuba Solidarity Campaign
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



