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VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro has urged his country’s five million Colombian immigrants to form a “movement for peace.”
Mr Maduro spoke after his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos attacked Venezuela’s crackdown on paramilitaries who have infiltrated the country, funded by Colombia’s ruling class.
“I want all of you to help me in an important task. Let’s look for all the hard-working and honest Colombians that live in our homeland and let’s build a movement of Colombians in Venezuela to defend sovereignty, peace in Venezuela,” Mr Maduro said on Tuesday.
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
With Petro, Colombia has been making huge strides towards peace — but is all that at risk with the elections next year? MARK ROWE reports back after joining a delegation to the Latin American country
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
