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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.
Latin America is being swept by a series of right-wing electoral victories. But behind that shift to the right lies less of an ideological conversion than anger, fear, insecurity, and a deep crisis of democracy, asserts MARC VANDEPITTE
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Kate Clark pays tribute to Ricardo, whose life spanned the hopes of Allende’s Chile, the horrors of military dictatorship and decades of campaigning for justice in exile
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the US is tightening the noose to destroy Cuban socialism — the need for immediate, international solidarity is urgent
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