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FAR-RIGHT Venezuelan opposition figure Leopoldo Lopez was invited to join other regime change proponents as part of “a network of freedom fighters” at a gathering in Miami on Wednesday.
The Oslo Freedom Forum, which has its foundations in anti-communist NGOs, held a forum for wannabe leaders hoping to subvert democracy in their countries.
Mr Lopez told New York-based journalist and anti-Iran activist Masih Alinejad that he hoped they could unite their efforts in bringing freedom to their home countries.
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
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