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COLOMBIA is preparing “false flag” incidents along its border with Venezuela that could be used as an excuse for US invasion, a top Venezuelan politician has warned.
Freddy Bernal co-ordinates the local committees for supply and production, which organise distribution of food to counter shortages caused by US sanctions, inflation and the smuggling of cheap subsidised foods abroad, where they can be sold at a profit.
He said he had “direct information” from officers in the Colombian police that their government was involved in planning attacks which could involve mercenaries or defectors from the Venezuelan military staging incidents with the Colombian army at border spots.
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
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
To defend Puerto Rico’s right to peace is to defend Venezuela’s right to exist, argues MICHELLE ELLNER