VENEZUELAN security forces have foiled an opposition plot to break into a military air base and torch the aircraft to “create a climate of commotion,” Vice-President Tareck El Aissami revealed on Tuesday.
Mr Aissami, tasked by President Nicolas Maduro with fighting terrorism, said one of the group arrested had admitted to the plan.
Security forces seized automatic rifles, grenades, ammunition and petrol bombs in the raids, he said.
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



