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US Vice-President Mike Pence said the 10,000 refugees fleeing violence and poverty in Honduras were sponsored by 'leftist groups' and the Venezuelan government
NICOLAS MADURO branded US Vice-President Mike Pence a “crazy extremist” today after Washington accused the Venezuelan president of funding the migrant caravan which has been blocked from entering the US.
Caracas blasted claims of a “Venezuelan plot,” warning they could be used as the pretext for US military intervention against the country.
Speaking from the Oval Office alongside US President Donald Trump, Mr Pence claimed he had spoken to Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez who told him the caravan was sponsored by “leftist groups” and funded by Venezuela.
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
The US is desperate to stop Honduras’s process of social and democratic change, writes TIM YOUNG
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