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Voters wait to cast theirs ballots as others look at lists for their voting tables during local elections in Caracas, Venezuela, yesterday
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VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro warned of a US plot to overthrow the country’s progressive government after his party swept to a decisive victory in yesterday’s municipal elections.
The United Socialist Party of Venezuela won 142 of the 156 declared municipalities in what was Venezuela’s fifth election in just 18 months, said National Electoral Council chair Tibisay Lucena after early results came in.
Critics pointed to a low turnout, with an abstention rate of just over 70 per cent of the 20.7 million eligible voters.
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