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WASHINGTON failed to win support for United Nations intervention in Venezuela’s crisis on Wednesday as thousands of troops were deployed against anti-government rioters.
US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley called the security council meeting to discuss the political confrontation in the South American country.
Comparing Venezuela to other countries targeted for regime change by Washington, she said: “We’ve been down this road with Syria, North Korea, South Sudan, Burundi, with Burma.”
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