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VENEZUELA’S opposition-controlled parliament has passed a new law to free anti-government terrorists and other criminals.
The so-called Amnesty Law, passed on Tuesday night, would pardon a wide range of crimes committed between January 1 1999 — a month before the late president Hugo Chavez’s first election victory — and the present.
United Socialist Party (PSUV) President Nicolas Maduro condemned the legislation from the Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) alliance and vowed to veto it.
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
