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VENEZUELAN rights campaigners in Britain backed Caracas’s claims yesterday that the Bank of England (BoE) is infringing on human rights by denying the South American nation access to its own gold reserves.
Legal representatives of the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) said on Monday that the BoE was “putting lives at risk” by refusing to release around $1.13 billion (£895,000) of gold reserves, which the country could use to fight the health emergency precipitated by Covid-19.
Venezuela is seeking a court order for the urgent release of about $930 million (£736m), which would be transferred directly to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in order to acquire healthcare equipment, medicine and food.
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
HANK KENNEDY contends that US military attacks in the Caribbean amount to modern piracy driven by Venezuela’s oil wealth
Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY