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A government supporter holds a Venezuelan national flag during a meeting marking the anniversary of the coup that overthrew dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez in 1958 near the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas
COLOMBIAN President Ivan Duque was central to an attempt to overthrow the Venezuelan government, according to a woman detained in Bogota last year in connection with gun smuggling.
Yacsy Alvarez insists that Mr Duque knew all the details of the plot, codenamed Operation Gideon, against his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro.
Speaking from La Picalena prison in the central city of Ibague, she explained that she was working with Colombian intelligence services who supported the coup attempt foiled by Venezuela’s armed forces on May 3 last year.
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 British government won’t confirm wide reports it has withheld intelligence sharing with the US over fears Trump’s attacks on boats near Venezuela are illegal, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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
