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VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro announced a 40 per cent increase in public-sector workers’ pay and state retirement pensions on last night in his end-of-the-year address.
The workers, including health professionals, teachers and military members, will receive their pay boost immediately.
He announced that more citizens will benefit from the country’s food voucher programme, adding that current recipients will see an increase in the value of vouchers received. Retirement pensions will also increase by 40 per cent.
Concessions to Washington by the post-Maduro leadership in Caracas are designed to preserve the core of the Bolivarian Revolution not betray it, argue Roger D Harris, Francisco Dominguez and Mara Paez Victor. How the solidarity movement responds is critical
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
