OPPOSITION to the US attacks on Venezuela grew in Wales today, with calls for Britain to condemn the breach of international law.

Plaid Gomiwnyddol Cymru (the Communist Party of Wales) condemned the actions of the US as a criminal attack on a sovereign state.

A party statement said: “In a naked act of war and imperialist aggression, the US military bombed both civilian and military areas in and around Venezuela’s capital of Caracas and deployed special forces to kidnap its president, Nicolas Maduro.

“This is yet another escalation of a decades-long campaign of colonial terror aimed at punishing the people of Venezuela for their refusal to submit to Western capital and surrender the natural resources and wealth.”

Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth called on Westminster to condemn US President Donald Trump’s breach of international law.

He said: “US actions in Venezuela are clearly in breach of international law and as such must be condemned, including by the UK Prime Minister, regardless of the well-documented questions over Maduro’s legitimacy.

“International law must be upheld by all, without exception. Without standing firm behind such values, the risk is of further destabilisation around the world.”

First Minister Eluned Morgan took a more equivocal stance, calling the situation in Venezuela “deeply concerning.”

The Welsh government’s former top legal minister, Mick Antoniw, took to social media to call the US government “gangsters” and said it was all about money.

In a barbed response to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s statement saying he supported international law, the former Counsel General for Wales said: “So much for international law.”