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Demonstrators hold a life-size image of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez during a pro-government rally in La Guaira, Venezuela, last Friday
THE aim of John Bolton, national security adviser to Donald Trump, is to bring insecurity to the people of Venezuela.
When he appears with an ostentatiously revealing notepad signifying “5,000 thousand troops to Colombia” this indicates not an immediate invasion of Venezuela but a real threat that if the US strategy is not successful in detaching enough popular support from the government of Nicolas Maduro the military option remains open.
Labour MPs, like the shameful Rachel Reeves on BBC World News, who back the diplomatic pressure on Venezuela by the Tory government and the EU, need to understand that there is no clear distinction between the effects of economic sanctions, manufactured shortages, dirty tricks and terror tactics currently under way and the human cost of a full-blown coup. Or a moral distinction between the golpista and herself.
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
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
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
HANK KENNEDY contends that US military attacks in the Caribbean amount to modern piracy driven by Venezuela’s oil wealth