NEARLY 200 Venezuelans were deported from the US to their home country this week after being detained at the notorious US torture camp in Guantanamo Bay on illegally occupied Cuban soil.
The government of President Nicolas Maduro said that it had “requested the repatriation of a group” of Venezuelans “who were unjustly taken” to Guantanamo Bay.
With the request accepted, an aircraft with the state-owned airline Conviasa picked up the Venezuelans from Honduras. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency confirmed the transfer of 177 “illegal aliens.”
On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS reports
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



