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NICOLAS MADURO criticised Guyanese President David Granger’s “aggressive provocation” over a Venezuelan dispute in Guyana with oil giant ExxonMobil on Tuesday.
Speaking after a meeting with UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon, the Venezuelan president said that Mr Granger would “have to rectify a situation that harms his own people.”
But Mr Maduro put the majority of the blame on ExxonMobil, which announced a major oil find in May in disputed waters off Guyana’s Caribbean coast.
Morning Star international editor ROGER McKENZIE says Trump’s ceaseless belligerence is a desperate effort to prevent the emergence of a multilateral world
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
US baseless accusations of drug trafficking and the outrageous putting of a bounty on a president of a sovereign country do not bode well, reports PABLO MERIGUET