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Opposition leader Juan Guaido speaks to the press in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, November 22, 2021, the day after regional elections
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VENEZUELA called on the United States to respect international law and the country’s sovereignty today.
The Bolivarian government hit out after hawkish US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made unfounded claims of harassment and “unfair conditions” in last Sunday’s elections.
President Nicolas Maduro’s United Socialist Party of Venezuela sealed a resounding victory in the mega-poll, taking the governorship of 20 of the country’s 23 states.
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