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VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday night he was “proud” after the US imposed personal sanctions on him.
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced the sanctions in response to Sunday’s elections for a new body to amend the constitution.
The president called Washington’s bluff after a mooted block on dollar payments for Venezuelan oil — effectively a full economic blockade — did not materialise.
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
