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VENEZUELA’S highest court blocked opposition attempts to carry out a legislative coup against socialist President Nicolas Maduro on Monday.
The right-wing Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud) alliance had proposed a constitutional amendment cutting the length of presidential terms from six years to four.
Mr Maduro was elected in April 2013 following the death of his United Socialist Party (PSUV) predecessor Hugo Chavez, who had been re-elected to a third term of office the previous year.
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
