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‘Regime change is still the US’s top priority’
Venezuelan ambassador to Britain ROCIO MANEIRO talks to the James Tweedie about the looming threats to her country from within and without

THIS Sunday Venezuela will reach the crest of a crisis that has been building since December 2015, if not since the beginning of 2014.

More than 100 people have died in the riots that began at the start of April, compared with 43 in the “guarimba” riots of 2014.

President Nicolas Maduro’s United Socialist Party (PSUV) government has called elections to a new constituent assembly which will propose amendments to the 1999 “Bolivarian” constitution that was the brainchild of late president Hugo Chavez.

  • Rocio Maneir is the Venezuelan ambassador to Britain. James Tweedie is the Morning Star’s international editor.
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