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THE Venezuela Solidarity Campaign (VSC) in Britain has expressed outrage after Latin American governments issued a statement rejecting the legitimacy of President Nicolas Maduro.
The so-called “Lima Group” of 12 Latin American governments plus Canada made the controversial comments ahead of Mr Maduro’s inauguration tomorrow, even announcing economic sanctions.
The VSC warned that the bloc’s stance “represents the region’s extreme right wing” and said that Brazil’s Bolsonaro administration “is now playing a central role” in trying to “eradicate all forms of progressive politics in the region by hook or by crook.”
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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
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