VENEZUELA’S opposition denied fomenting a violent coup on Thursday — even as a woman was injured by petrol-bomb-throwing militants and a university campus was smashed.
Tachira Governor Jose Gregorio Vielma said rioters threw petrol bombs at a minibus in the state capital San Cristobal, injuring three people.
A video showed 61-year-old Lorenza Higuera in hospital with second-degree burns to her hands, arms and face.
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



