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VENEZUELA’S opposition played down the significance yesterday of an overnight helicopter-borne grenade attack on the Supreme Court, suggesting it could be a government hoax.
Opposition national assembly president Julio Borges insisted that he and the rest of the opposition were still analysing what had happened.
“There are people who say it was a government-staged hoax, others who say it was real,” he said.
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
HANK KENNEDY contends that US military attacks in the Caribbean amount to modern piracy driven by Venezuela’s oil wealth