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VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro has said that the new Constituent Assembly will act this week to end the economic war on the country.
In a television interview on Sunday with veteran journalist Jose Vicente Rangel, Mr Maduro said the three-week-old assembly would take steps to end black-market speculation that caused soaring inflation.
The assembly’s economic commission, made up of representatives of the labour and business sectors, will announce measures to ensure the government price cap on foodstuffs and other goods is respected, he said.
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
