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DOMINICA’S prime minister warned today of an attempted coup by the Organisation of American States (OAS) in retaliation against the nation’s opposition to US policy on Venezuela.
Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit accused OAS chief Luis Almagro of “leading a campiagn” of incitement against his ruling Dominica Labour Party, warning that certain member states were being targeted.
He insisted that the OAS was on a “crusade” to “delegitimise his government” as punishment for consistently voting against interference in the region, particularly on the body’s resolutions against Venezuela.
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
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
