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VENEZUELA has reinforced its border with Colombia after three soldiers were killed in an armed attack yesterday that is believed to have been carried out by Colombian guerilla group the National Liberation Army (ELN).
Ten other soldiers were injured in the attack in Amazonas state, Venezuelan Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez reported, calling it retribution for Venezuela’s capture of nine Colombian paramilitary members.
“We will find the paramilitaries wherever they are,” he said. “For now I say to them: ‘Leave Venezuela. There is no space here. There has never been any space here for you’.”
The disputed election of a far-right president, who is also a US citizen, signals further consolidation of Washington’s regional power and represents a threat to the country’s democracy and sovereignty, writes WT WHITNEY JNR
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