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VENEZUELA’S Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza accused Donald Trump on Monday of acting like “the world’s emperor,” after the US president added the country to his travel-ban list.
Speaking at the United Nations, Mr Arreaza railed: “As if he were the world’s emperor, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, used this podium built for peace to announce wars, total destruction of member states” and “coercive measures, threatening and judging as if he had absolute, dictatorial powers over the sovereign member states of our organisation.”
On Monday, Mr Trump imposed an indefinite US travel ban on citizens of Venezuela, North Korea and Chad over alleged national security concerns.
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
