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Members of the Indigenous Guard protest against President Ivan Duque, in Bogota, Colombia, on Friday
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro put the country’s armed forces on high alert and called on the people to be ready to defend their homeland from an attack from Colombia.
The Bolivarian leader has consistently warned that Colombian President Ivan Duque is trying to create conditions to justify an attack on Venezuela.
Earlier this year troops built up on the border in support of usurper Juan Guaido, who declared himself Venezuela’s interim president in January, as he claimed he was trying to break a non-existent aid blockade.
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
