VENEZUELA hit back today at the European Union after Brussels banned travel and froze the assets of 11 senior Venezuelan officials, including new Vice-President Delcy Rodriguez.
The Maduro government called the new EU measure an act of “ongoing aggression” and “intervention,” stressing that it will not accept threats from any power or group of countries.
Caracas accused the EU of “undermining political peace in Venezuela by meddling in its internal affairs and engaging in coercive measures that undermine tranquillity and dialogue.”
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



