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VENEZUELA’S elections council (CNE) postponed next week’s petition for a presidential recall referendum on Thursday over allegations of fraud.
Courts in five states found irregularities in the earlier stage of petitioning, when the right-wing opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) had to garner the signatures of 1 per cent of the national electorate.
The Mud was preparing to collect 3.9 million signatures between Wednesday and Friday next week — 20 per cent of registered voters — for the removal of United Socialist Party (PSUV) President Nicolas Maduro.
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