VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro was set to meet defence chiefs yesterday as the opposition accelerated its regime change plan.
Mr Maduro called a meeting of the National Defence Council (Codena) after flying in from his diplomatic tour of Opec nations on Tuesday.
The country was braced for protests yesterday by the right-wing, US-backed Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) coalition, ominously dubbed the “Taking of Venezuela.”
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


