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Venezuela’s self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido, Colombia's President Ivan Duque and US Vice-President Mike Pence pose for a photo after a meeting of the Lima Group in Bogota, Colombia, Monday February 25
US VICE-PRESIDENT Mike Pence announced more sanctions on Venezuela today in a speech that suggested Washington is unsure how to advance its regime change agenda.
On his visit Colombia, Mr Pence announced further sanctions on individual Venezuelans but was hard-pressed to intensify the crippling economic sanctions the US has already imposed.
He called on other countries to do more to confiscate Venezuelan property abroad and stop it trading.
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
US baseless accusations of drug trafficking and the outrageous putting of a bounty on a president of a sovereign country do not bode well, reports PABLO MERIGUET