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People gather outside the Venezuelan Embassy in London
SUPPORTERS of Venezuela’s democratically elected President Nicolas Maduro welcomed the start of his second term with a lively rally outside the country’s London embassy today.
More than 60 activists gathered on Exhibition Road in South Kensington to show their solidarity and denounce US efforts to destabilise Mr Maduro’s presidency.
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
DAVID RABY reports on the progressive administration in Mexico, which continues to overcome far-left wreckers on the edges of a teaching union, the murderous violence of the cartels, the ploys of the traditional right wing, and Trump’s provocations