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VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro has moved to put parliament back on a legal footing as a prelude to resuming talks with the opposition.
The president told viewers of his Sundays with Maduro show that he had asked the Dialogue Commission chief, former vice-president Jorge Rodriguez, to draw up a document in agreement with the Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) coalition to “facilitate the legalisation of the national assembly.”
The National Justice Tribunal (TSJ), Venezuela’s highest court, declared the Mud-controlled assembly to be operating unconstitutionally last year after it swore in three MPs who had been suspended over allegations of electoral fraud.
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
