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UNION of South American Nations (Unasur) secretary-general Ernesto Samper said on Sunday that the release of several jailed opposition figures “shows dialogue is the path for Venezuela.”
He welcomed the New Year’s Eve concession to the Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) opposition in a tweet from Ecuador’s capital Quito, seat of the bloc.
Among those released was unsuccessful 2006 presidential candidate Manuel Rosales, jailed on corruption charges in 2015 after returning from Peru after six years on the run.
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
