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Trump’s regime change agenda against Venezuela
How the Organisation of American States and right-wing groupings are conspiring to oust democratically elected president Maduro

SINCE the right-wing opposition won a majority of National Assembly seats in the 2015 election, President Nicolas Maduro has withstood multiple rightwing attempts to remove him though undemocratic means before his constitutional term ends in 2019.

Faced with their failure to “finish the job” of removing Maduro, the Venezuelan right’s US mentors and financiers have decided to change tack and mobilise resources in the international arena to bring about regime change through external pressure.

In typical fashion, the US has been seeking a financial and economic blockade of Venezuela, aimed at intensifying the negative consequences of the ongoing economic war against its population, especially the poor.

  • Francisco Dominguez is secretary of the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign.
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