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Opposition leader Juan Guaido speaks to the press in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, November 22, 2021, the day after regional elections
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden has invited Venezuelan opposition politician Juan Guaido to a so-called Summit for Democracy he is set to host later this month, it was confirmed on Tuesday.
Head of US diplomacy for Latin America Brian A Nicholls told a Senate foreign affairs committee that the wannabe usurper had been asked to participate in the virtual gathering.
The two-day summit of some hundred or so nations has been widely criticised, with Russia, Turkey and China barred from attending while Poland, the Philippines and India are among those invited.
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
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