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WASHINGTON placed new sanctions on 10 Venezuelan individuals on Thursday for alleged fraud in last month’s regional elections.
The US Treasury Department sanctions freeze any assets the affected officials have in US jurisdictions and bar US citizens from doing business with them.
They include National Electoral Council officials Socorro Hernandez, Sandra Oblitas and Carlos Quintero and former communications and food ministers Ernesto Villegas and Carlos Osorio.
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
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