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CRACKS widened in Venezuela’s opposition alliance on Thursday as Come Venezuela (VV) leader Maria Corina Machado attacked the coalition’s decision to stand in December’s regional elections.
The second-largest Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) party, Democratic Action, announced it would stand candidates separately in the elections, despite the coalition completely boycotting last month’s assembly elections called by President Nicolas Maduro.
However, right-wing leader Ms Machado wrote on Twitter on Thursday: “Today VV deviates from the route chosen by the Mud,” calling it “surrender.”
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
