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Venezuela's interim president Juan Guaido
VENEZUELA has called on the European Union to “cease its systematic aggression” and abandon its neocolonial approach to Latin American countries after sanctions were placed on 19 officials on Monday.
The Foreign Ministry condemned the neoliberal bloc for its latest interference, which, it said, was an action aimed at forcing regime change in Venezuela.
“These erratic decisions reveal the inability of the European bloc to attend to, respect and accept the will of the Venezuelan people, and once again reveal its anachronistic interventionist and interference policy towards Venezuela,” a Foreign Ministry statement said.
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
Western nations’ increasingly aggressive stance is not prompted by any increase in security threats against these countries — rather, it is caused by a desire to bring about regime changes against governments that pose a threat to the hegemony of imperialism, writes PRABHAT PATNAIK
