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People chant during a rally celebrating May Day in Caracas, Venezuela, on Monday
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NEOLIBERAL forces rounded on Venezuela today as the European Parliament called for the May 20 presidential elections to be postponed.
MEPs voted 492-87, with 77 abstentions, for the immediate suspension of electoral preparations in the Latin American country.
Caracas had been anticipating the move after EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini warned Venezuela last month that Brussels is “ready to react through appropriate measures” to any decision it regards as undermining democracy in the country.
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
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