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A RIGHT-WING “general strike” held for 12 hours yesterday in a bid to put pressure on the socialist government drew little support from Venezuelans.
A handful of bosses closed their shops and traffic was a bit lighter in the capital Caracas but otherwise it was ignored.
“Your strike has failed,” the Socialist Party governor of Aragua state told leaders of the right-wing Mud coalition. “Nobody is going to support a coup.”
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
