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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a ceremony marking the start of the judicial year at the Supreme Court in Caracas in January 2021
VENEZUELA criticised the Spanish embassy in Caracas on Sunday for allegedly colluding with the country’s far-right opposition politician Leopoldo Lopez in the attempted coup against the democratically elected government.
Chair of the Venezuelan parliament Jorge Rodriguez presented new evidence for Mr Lopez’s involvement in last year’s failed coup attempt, Operation Gideon, when former US special forces troops Airan Berry and Luke Denman were caught entering the country from neighbouring Colombia on May 3 2020.
They were part of a plot spearheaded by Washington-backed Juan Guaido, who signed a contract with private US military company Silvercorp. Both men were subsequently jailed.
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
