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VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro has called for international support to investigate the cyber attacks which paralysed the country’s electricity system over the weekend.
He announced the creation of a special commission to carry out the investigations and hopes China, Russia, Iran and Cuba will help, along with the United Nations (UN).
It will be led by Vice-President Delcy Rodriguez, he said, explaining that the attacks had been carried out from two US cities, Houston and Chicago.
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