VENEZUELA’S grassroots activists stepped into power as the first National Communal Parliament was inaugurated on Tuesday.
National Assembly president Diosdado Cabello presided as the self-administering communal councils encouraged and financed by late revolutionary leader Hugo Chavez came together for the first time.
The decision to hold the parliament in the National Assembly premises showed that President Nicolas Maduro and the Bolivarian revolutionary forces would not fold in the face of inclement election results last week.
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
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



