VENEZUELAN police have smashed an opposition plot to sabotage electricity, gas and water supplies, President Nicolas Maduro announced on Monday night.
He said members of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) coalition had been “caught red-handed.”
Speaking from Vargas state, where he was meeting candidates of his United Socialist Party (PSUV) in this month’s regional elections, Mr Maduro said: “We have our hands on part of this group.”
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


