A supporter of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro carries a ‘Yankee Go Home’ sign with images of Venezuela’s late president Hugo Chavez and Maduro, at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas
IN NEITHER the barrios of Latin America nor the corridors of the Pentagon have the present day parallels of Venezuela with Chile been overlooked.
In the 1970s the Chilean propertied classes colluded with the US to destabilise the emancipatory government of Salvador Allende.
Allende’s Popular Unity government gave free milk for children, nationalised the copper and coalmining industries, reformed health and education and sparked a huge renewal of popular culture.
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
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ says the US’s bullying conduct in what it considers its backyard is a bid to reassert imperial primacy over a rising China — but it faces huge resistance
