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BRITAIN must not follow the US political agenda for regime change in Venezuela, solidarity campaigners warned yesterday as pressure mounted on President Nicolas Maduro and his socialist government.
The Venezuela Solidarity Campaign (VSC) urged the British government to facilitate dialogue for a peaceful solution instead of imposing punitive sanctions.
The call came as Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson accused Mr Maduro of behaving like the “dictator of an evil regime” — despite Venezuelan people in their millions voting on Sunday in favour of a new national assembly proposed by Mr Maduro to debate the South American country’s future and write a new constitution.
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
