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WASHINGTON could intervene in Venezuela’s arrest of six state petrol firm executives after it emerged they hold US passports.
Jose Angel Pereira and five vice-presidents were arrested on Tuesday, charged with making refinancing deals on the US subsidiary of state oil firm PDVSA on disadvantageous terms in return for kickbacks and selling oil ministry secrets to the US.
But two anonymous sources told the US Associated Press news agency that the men held dual citizenship, giving the US State Department the right to intervene on their behalf.
Concessions to Washington by the post-Maduro leadership in Caracas are designed to preserve the core of the Bolivarian Revolution not betray it, argue Roger D Harris, Francisco Dominguez and Mara Paez Victor. How the solidarity movement responds is critical
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
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