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People gather outside the Venezuelan Embassy in London
SUPPORTERS of Venezuela’s democratically elected President Nicolas Maduro welcomed the start of his second term with a lively rally outside the country’s London embassy today.
More than 60 activists gathered on Exhibition Road in South Kensington to show their solidarity and denounce US efforts to destabilise Mr Maduro’s presidency.
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
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
