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VENEZUELA’S opposition suffered another blow on Tuesday after three of its MPs finally heeded a court order demanding their resignation.
The three politicians had been banned from the National Assembly in January this year by the Supreme Court under allegations of fraud.
However the Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) — a coalition of right-wing parties — defied the ruling by reinstating them in July, creating a crisis where the assembly was deemed to be sitting in breach of the constitution.
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
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