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Speaker of the US House Nancy Pelosi meets with Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido in Washington, last week
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro condemned a terrorist attack on a telecommunications company as the US ratcheted up the pressure imposing new sanctions in the latest bid to force him from office.
A warehouse belonging to the National Telephone Company of Venezuela (Cantv) and its affiliate Movilnet in the northern state of Carabobo was struck on Saturday night causing a fire and damage to strategic telecommunications equipment.
Vice President Delcy Rodriguez warned on Sunday of an increase in “violent waves of extremism pushed by the United States-backed opposition.”
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
