Latest editorial
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro said on Saturday that authorities had detained a former United States marine and CIA operative after he was caught spying on two oil refineries.
Speaking on national television, the Bolivarian leader said: “He was captured with heavy weapons, speciality weapons. He was captured with a great amount of cash in dollars and with other elements that we have sent directly to the Public Ministry, the prosecutor’s office.”
The arrest was made in the north-western state of Falcon on Thursday, Mr Maduro confirmed.
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
