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VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro announced a 40 per cent increase in public-sector workers’ pay and state retirement pensions on last night in his end-of-the-year address.
The workers, including health professionals, teachers and military members, will receive their pay boost immediately.
He announced that more citizens will benefit from the country’s food voucher programme, adding that current recipients will see an increase in the value of vouchers received. Retirement pensions will also increase by 40 per cent.
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
