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A woman walks her dog past a mural featuring Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez (right) next to Cuba's late leader Fidel Castro (left) in Caracas last week
CUBA has branded the attack on the electricity system which left large parts of its ally Venezuela without power as an act of terrorism.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced the details of the sabotage, describing Thursday’s attack on the electrical system the “cruellest blow in the history of the country.”
He dismissed claims made by regime change advocate US Senator Marco Rubio that the country’s own government was responsible for the power cuts, saying he had evidence of sabotage.
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
