LATIN AMERICAN and Caribbean leaders warned of a “new imperialist onslaught” on Sunday during a summit in Venezuela.
Presidents and prime ministers from the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (Alba) bloc met in the capital Caracas on the fourth anniversary of the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez’s death — and four months since the demise of Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.
The bloc, which comprises Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and six small Caribbean states including Grenada, said the region was passing through a “crucial stage in its history.
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
To defend Puerto Rico’s right to peace is to defend Venezuela’s right to exist, argues MICHELLE ELLNER
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



