VENEZUELA’S right-wing opposition pulled out of talks with the government on Tuesday as hope grew of countering the “economic war” being waged against the country
Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) secretary-general Jesus Torrealba announced the coalition of US-friendly parties would not attend.
Tuesday’s scheduled meeting with President Nicolas Maduro’s United Socialist Party government was to be the third since the Vatican-mediated talks began in October.
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


