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The Colombian connection: US imperialism and Venezuela
OLIVER DODD explains that big business in Colombia has everything to gain from extending its war against the poor within its own borders to the fledgling socialist state that it neighbours
So far none of the repeated assassination and coup attempts against President Maduro and his left-wing government have succeeded in knocking the popularity of the administration among the poor
Rebuilding Labour’s working-class roots and organising power is essential if the party is to recover, says MERCEDES VILLALBA
ANDREW MURRAY looks back at a damaging career marked by dishonesty, incompetence and revolting complicity in war crimes
Britain’s historic vote to leave the EU was a rejection of the political Establishment and the strategic direction pursued by Britain’s ruling class since the second world war, writes ALEX GORDON
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
ON May 3, armed combatants arrived from Colombia to take prisoner or assassinate leading figures of Venezuela’s left-wing political leadership, including the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro.
Launched from Colombian coastlines regularly patrolled by the Colombian navy and close to a US military and navy base, the mercenaries invaded Venezuela with heavy weaponry and satellite technology — such satellite technology facilitates secure communication with intelligence operatives, employed systematically by the US and Colombia in their counterinsurgency operations against left-wing Colombian rebels.
According to one of the leaders of the mercenary group, Jordan Goudreau, a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and the owner of a private “security” company in Florida — where scores of wealthy right-wing Venezuelans have emigrated — the invading group numbered around 60 combatants and organised itself inside Colombia, although there were certainly many more people involved than this. The group also included, by the admission of Goudreau, former members of US Special Forces.
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