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WHEN the US State Department asserts that, because five Venezuelan-born, high-ranking officials of the US subsidiary of Venezuela’s PDVSA state-owned oil company carry US passports, they have rights under international law, it is correct.
The fact that the US legal system has trodden roughshod over the rights of foreign nationals, say, Mexican passport holders, putting them to death after denying them access to consular officials despite Mexican government protests, does not invalidate the international convention.
The Venezuelan government, fortunately, does not model its attitude to international law on the example provided by a lawless US administration.
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
