VENEZUELA’S highest court rejected a challenge to the government’s bid to end the crisis on Monday as an opposition general strike began.
Opposition protesters marched to the Supreme Court building in Caracas in support of Attorney General Luisa Ortega’s challenge to the new national constituent assembly.
The assembly was convened by socialist President Nicolas Maduro to chart a way out of the political and economic crisis in Venezuela that has left more than 80 dead in two months of riots incited by the opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud).
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
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


