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VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro said elections for a new constituent assembly will still go ahead despite the threat of US sanctions.
In a statement on Monday, US President Donald Trump threatened “strong and swift economic actions” if Venezuela carries out a July 30 election to the National Constituent Assembly — a new body tasked with rewriting the 1999 constitution.
But Mr Maduro said Caracas’s response to Washington “will be very firm in defence of our historic anti-colonial heritage.
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
