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US Congress members from both parties have urged President Donald Trump to slap fresh sanctions on Venezuela.
The Associated Press (AP) said yesterday that 34 legislators had written to Mr Trump, repeating claims made against Venezuela’s United Socialist Party (PSUV) government in an earlier AP report.
The news agency claimed the Venezuelan army was responsible for the black market in government-sponsored food and fuel, much of which is smuggled to neighbouring Colombia in what the President Nicolas Maduro calls economic warfare directed from Washington.
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
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
