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A woman with her son climb up the hill in the El Quilombo neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela
THE Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) has demanded “a united anti-imperialist front” to press for an end to sanctions and the unfreezing of the country’s assets by Britain, Portugal and the United States.
In today’s statement it supported the preliminary conclusions of UN special rapporteur Alena Douhan, who noted in her recent visit to the South American nation that “the sanctions have strengthened the pre-existing problems and they have contributed to the loss of human rights of the population.”
Ms Douhan’s report recommended that the US and European Union lift the universal coercive measures that, the PCV said, have caused devastation, including forcing the most vulnerable in society into extreme poverty.
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
