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VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro led thousands of supporters in a protest on Saturday against the renewal of US sanctions.
“Unlike the US, we have never killed innocent children nor bombed hospitals,” he said at the rally in the capital Caracas, vowing to fight imperialist intervention.
“I swore that I would never surrender to the oligarchy, under no circumstances,” Mr Maduro told crowd of red-shirted demonstrators. “Let them come for me. Nobody’s giving up here.”
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
