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VENEZUELA’S government has linked opposition parties to murders at this week’s regime change demonstrations — which dwindled on Thursday.
Interior and Justice Minister Nestor Reverol said the motorcycle-riding gunman who killed a 24-year-old woman on Wednesday was an active member of one of the parties organising the protests.
Ivan Pernia was captured on Wednesday night and confessed to killing Paola Ramirez in the western town of San Cristobal — as she took refuge in a square four blocks away from where a riot was taking place.
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
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
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
