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Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams speaks at a news conference, last Tuesday
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro has published an open letter to the world calling on governments to focus on protecting the lives of their citizens during the Covid-19 crisis instead of threatening peace and stability.
He denounced increased aggression by the United States, which last week mobilised its largest naval operation in the region since the 1989 invasion of Panama ousted General Manuel Noriega from power and brought him to the US on drug-trafficking charges.
The deployment came after Washington had branded Venezuela a “narco-terrorist state” and placed a $15 million (£12m) bounty on Mr Maduro’s head, claiming that he heads a violent drug cartel intent on flooding the US with cocaine.
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
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