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Juan Guaido speaks at a press conference in Caracass
SELF-DECLARED Venezuelan “president” Juan Guaido ordered his political envoy in Washington at the weekend to open “direct communications” with the US military on removing elected President Nicolas Maduro.
Mr Guaido, the unelected chief of the defunct National Assembly, declared himself interim president in January but has failed to unseat the government, with rallies in support of the legitimate authorities outnumbering his own and the military remaining loyal to the Bolivarian Revolution.
An attempted coup on April 30 was similarly ineffectual, but he warned a crowd of several hundred supporters in Caracas at the weekend that “all options [are] on the table” for regime change.
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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
HANK KENNEDY contends that US military attacks in the Caribbean amount to modern piracy driven by Venezuela’s oil wealth
