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VENEZUELAN trade unionists yesterday rubbished claims by food giant Polar that the country was short of maize.
Polar, also Venezuela’s largest brewer, stopped production of PAN cornflour at three of its mills in Cumana, Chivacoa and Turmero, saying that there was a shortage of grain.
But United Polar Food Workers Union (Sutap) leader Henry Ascanio told daily newspaper Ciudad CCS that maize was pouring into the Turmero plant where he works “night and day.”
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
