VENEZUELA’S socialist government has put the parliamentary TV channel under workers’ control to stop the opposition taking it over.
And President Nicolas Maduro announced emergency legislation to protect workers’ rights before the current National Assembly term expires.
Assembly Speaker Diosdado Cabello announced on Tuesday that control of ANTV, Venezuela’s equivalent of BBC Parliament, would be transferred to staff.
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
LEE BROWN highlights the latest attempts to undo progressive reforms instated during the presidency of Rafael Correa
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


