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Venezuela´s President Nicolas Maduro, right, meets Colombia's new ambassador Armando Benedetti at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Aug 29, 2022.
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro hosted Colombian ambassador Armando Benedetti at a welcome event on Monday, signifying restored relations between the Latin American neighbours.
Colombia’s new left-wing President Gustavo Petro has dropped his predecessor Ivan Duque’s recognition of US-backed pretender Juan Guaido and restored relations with Venezuela’s elected government.
Mr Benedetti tweeted: “Relations with Venezuela should never have been severed. We are brothers and an imaginary line cannot separate us.”
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
