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President Donald Trump speaks to a Venezuelan American community at Florida Ocean Bank Convocation Center at Florida International University in Miami, yesterday
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro accused his US counterpart Donald Trump of wanting to impose “white supremacy” on the country following his “nazi-like speech” in Miami yesterday.
Mr Maduro warned that Washington was leading a coup attempt against the democratically elected Bolivarian government to take control of its vast oil reserves. He said Mr Trump’s rhetoric about humanitarian aid was just a show.
Mr Trump insists that Mr Maduro is blocking humanitarian aid from entering Venezuela and the US has started to send supplies to Colombia.
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
HANK KENNEDY contends that US military attacks in the Caribbean amount to modern piracy driven by Venezuela’s oil wealth