Trucks loaded with packages from USAid, which both the UN and Red Cross do not consider as humanitarian aid because of its partisan nature, head towards the as yet unopened Tienditas International Bridge in Cucuta, Colombia, on the border with Venezuela
A CONVOY of opposition leaders left Caracas for the border in white buses today, claiming they will obtain US aid currently waiting at the Colombian border and deliver it.
Self-proclaimed “president” Juan Guaido, an opposition MP in the defunct National Assembly, said he would head up the convoy but didn’t show up.
His fans said he would be travelling to the border incognito to avoid being turned back.
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
US baseless accusations of drug trafficking and the outrageous putting of a bounty on a president of a sovereign country do not bode well, reports PABLO MERIGUET
