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President Nicolas Maduro announced on Sunday that all 100-bolivar (8p) notes, currently the largest denomination, would be withdrawn from circulation on Wednesday.
Venezuelan authorities have accused Colombian organised crime gangs of smuggling warehouses full of the notes out of the country to print counterfeit US dollars on the paper.
The 6.1 billion 100-bolivar notes in circulation make up 48 per cent of legal tender.
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
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
HANK KENNEDY contends that US military attacks in the Caribbean amount to modern piracy driven by Venezuela’s oil wealth