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Solidarity with Latin America in a time of coronavirus
ADRIAN WEIR surveys the prospects for a continent under continual threat of imperialist interference and destabilisation
A man wearing a mask against the spread of the coronavirus coughs as he walks in the Cristo del Consuelo neighbourhood of Guayaquil, Ecuador, which has been particularly hard hit by the illness

OUT of a mainly dreadful filling of the second rank of shadow ministerial posts, I was pleased to see that my local MP, Catherine West, has been appointed a shadow Foreign Office minister responsible for the Americas and Europe. 

She now of course has the unenviable task of trying to navigate a path for Labour to deal with the madman across the water.

West has a good record on international issues. She was in lockstep with Jeremy Corbyn on the Chagos Islands and in the past has always met constituents taking part in Palestine Solidarity Campaign-organised parliamentary lobbies on Palestine.

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