VENEZUELA’S right-wing opposition moved to delegitimise the socialist government on Sunday in a clear attempt at a parliamentary coup.
The Democratic Unity Roundtable (Mud)-controlled National Assembly passed an “accord” accusing President Nicolas Maduro’s United Socialist Party (PSUV) government of a “rupture of the constitutional order.”
It blamed the government for the independent National Electoral Council’s decision to postpone the Mud’s petitioning for a presidential recall
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


