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CAMPAIGNING for Sunday’s parliamentary election in Venezuela has ended with President Nicolas Maduro calling for a peaceful vote.
Further electioneering was halted yesterday by law. Sales of alcohol, fireworks and weapons are also banned until after the poll.
Mr Maduro spoke at a huge final campaign rally for the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP) coalition in the centre of the capital, Caracas, where the streets were awash with red-shirted supporters.
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