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VENEZUELA’S economy is bouncing back despite US financial sanctions, ministers and business leaders said on Monday.
Economic activity is up 63 per cent, oil prices are up by $15 a barrel and non-oil exports are up 30 per cent.
Oil Minister Eulogio del Pino said: “The Venezuelan oil basket has exceeded the $55 per barrel barrier.”
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