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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro delivers his annual address to the nation before lawmakers at the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro has sent a convoy carrying oxygen to Brazil after hospitals in the Amazon city of Manaus reported that supplies were exhausted.
A second wave of the virus in Brazil has overwhelmed the health system in many areas. The country has the second-highest death toll from Covid-19 on Earth, with about 210,000 having died from the illness, with many regional leaders accusing President Jair Bolsonaro of undermining efforts to contain it.
Venezuela has registered just over 1,000 deaths from the virus, having adopted a Covid suppression strategy. Caracas Mayor Erika Farias said on Monday that a Plan for Research, Awareness and Prevention of Covid-19, staffed by Venezuelan and Cuban medical workers, now had a presence in every neighbourhood of the capital.
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
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
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
