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Children hold a portrait of the late President Hugo Chavez during an event celebrating the anniversary of his 1992 failed attempt to overthrow President Carlos Andres Perez at the 23 de Enero neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, February 4
VENEZUELA has said it has proof that right-wing Colombian President Ivan Duque and the CIA were involved in a number of terrorist plots aimed at overthrowing the government.
On Monday Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called on the Colombian parliament to open investigations into Mr Duque’s government, including a probe into a planned bomb attack on Venezuela’s national assembly.
“The terrorist acts, which included blowing up with explosives the national assembly headquarters and the Federal Legislative Palace, were being planned since December,” he said, adding that it was a new attempt by the Colombian government to overthrow him.
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
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
