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Venezuela’s struggle against Covid-19: imperialist blockade, internal problems and media manipulation
PAUL DOBSON looks at how the Latin American country has coped with coronavirus in the face of Washington's hostility
It is the class division and the impact of increasingly neoliberal government policies on the people that will ultimately determine the national infection rate
In the second of a series of interviews with leaders of progressive parties in Wales ahead of the May 7 Senedd election David Nicholson talks to Welsh Green Party leader ANTHONY SLAUGHTER
Oil and gas prices are rising due to the illegal war against Iran, but new nuclear power plants will only make things worse as their costs also escalate, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
As women dominate public services yet face pay gaps, unsafe workloads and rising misogyny, this International Women’s Day and TUC Women’s Conference must be a rallying point, says ANDREA EGAN
As the government quietly begins reviewing the BBC’s Royal Charter, the moment should be seized to refound the corporation as a truly democratic, regionally rooted public service, writes PAUL W FLEMING
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How can it be that Venezuela, a country which is so terribly battered by an imperialist blockade, nearly a decade of underinvestment, frequent examples of bad decision making, wide reaching corruption and technical brain drain, in addition to recent neoliberal and anti-worker economic policies including privatisation and asset stripping, is managing to keep Covid-19 rates significantly lower than its regional partners?
While community transmission rates, which are largely caused by the return of over 70,000 migrants who found themselves unemployed and without social coverage as the pandemic battered the continent, have driven up daily case counts to around 1,000 of late, a collapse of the Venezuelan healthcare system on the scale of Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, or, most recently, Bolivia, has not been observed so far.
For corporate press outlets which prop up imperialist pretensions in the region, this is unacceptable and spits in the face of their regime change rhetoric, forcing them to twist, distort and de-contextualise the reality once again so that it may fit their pre-established script.
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