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A reward poster for Nicolas Maduro (left) and (right) US President Donald Trump during a press conference yesterday
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro branded Donald Trump “a racist cowboy” today after the US declared the country a “narco-terrorist state” and placed a $15 million bounty on the Bolivarian leader’s head.
In a televised address he issued a warning to his US counterpart that he faced “the fury of an entire nation” in the wake of Mr Trump’s latest attempt to tighten the noose on Venezuela.
“You are a miserable human being, Donald Trump,” he told the nation. “You manage international relations like the New York mafia extortion artist you once were as a real estate boss.
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
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