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VENEZUELA has shed further light on a foiled “terrorist attack” on Monday, the second in two days, when eight armed men were arrested as they attempted to enter the country in a “naval incursion” from neighbouring Colombia.
Authorities were tipped off by local fishermen from the left-wing Casa del Pescador Socialista as the boat attempted to enter Venezuelan territory.
Local intelligence units detained the “terrorists” in the town of Chuao in Aragua state on Monday.
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