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US PRESIDENT Donald Trump raised the spectre of the military invasion of Venezuela again today as he ruled out talks with democratically elected President Nicolas Maduro.
Speaking on US broadcaster CBS’s Face the Nation programme yesterday Mr Trump confirmed military intervention was one of the options available in Washington’s bid to remove Mr Maduro from power and replace him with illegitimate would-be usurper Juan Guaido, unelected president of the defunct National Assembly.
“Well I don’t want to say that but certainly it’s something that’s on the [table] – it’s an option,” the belligerent US President said.
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
