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A reward poster for Nicolas Maduro (left) and (right) US President Donald Trump during a press conference yesterday
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro branded Donald Trump “a racist cowboy” today after the US declared the country a “narco-terrorist state” and placed a $15 million bounty on the Bolivarian leader’s head.
In a televised address he issued a warning to his US counterpart that he faced “the fury of an entire nation” in the wake of Mr Trump’s latest attempt to tighten the noose on Venezuela.
“You are a miserable human being, Donald Trump,” he told the nation. “You manage international relations like the New York mafia extortion artist you once were as a real estate boss.
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
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
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