A US-LED bid to scupper Venezuela’s constitutional reform process aimed at ending opposition-led violence was defeated by the country’s regional allies on Wednesday.
A special meeting of the Washington-based Organisation of American States (OAS) was suspended after a draft declaration by Peru, Canada, the US, Mexico and Panama failed to gain support.
That motion demanded that Venezuela’s United Socialist Party (PSUV) government halt the ongoing National Constituent Assembly process to make far-reaching amendments to the constitution.
Concessions to Washington by the post-Maduro leadership in Caracas are designed to preserve the core of the Bolivarian Revolution not betray it, argue Roger D Harris, Francisco Dominguez and Mara Paez Victor. How the solidarity movement responds is critical
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
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



