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COLOMBIA’S communist rebels are in the running for a new Venezuelan peace prize amid widespread criticism of their snubbing by the Nobel committee.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) were overlooked when Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos scooped the medal and the eight million krona (£750,000) cash prize on Friday.
That was despite the precedent set when the 1993 prize awarded jointly to South African liberation movement leader Nelson Mandela and the last apartheid-era president F W de Klerk.
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
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM