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VENEZUELA’S Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza told the New Delhi summit meeting of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) at the weekend that his country’s new digital currency will underpin its investment in renewable energy.
”The petro will be the mechanism by which solar energy projects will be financed through Petrocaribe,” he said.
“Venezuela has a great responsibility to develop solar energy despite being an oil producer. The socialist ethic tells us that we have to look for new types of clean energies,” Mr Arreaza added.
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
HANK KENNEDY contends that US military attacks in the Caribbean amount to modern piracy driven by Venezuela’s oil wealth
