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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks during a news conference with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, yesterday
VENEZUELA hit out at a “neo-fascist alliance” between the US and Brazil on Tuesday after new sanctions were imposed on its state-owned gold mining company Minerven.
As part of its programme to destabilise the Venezuelan government and topple President Nicolas Maduro Washington announced measures to block state mining assets and ban US citizens from dealing with the company.
Gold is seen as a potential lifeline for Venezuela’s economy with large quantities believed to be refined at a specially built facility in Corum, Turkey.
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
HANK KENNEDY contends that US military attacks in the Caribbean amount to modern piracy driven by Venezuela’s oil wealth