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President Nicolas Maduro revealed urgent measures at the weekend to combat shortages and rising prices so that families can have a merry Christmas.
He announced the deployment of hundreds of inspectors to enforce price regulations setting maximum costs for a wide range of essentials.
"Today we deploy and in November and December you will see that we have guaranteed a happy Christmas for the people," he said in a TV broadcast.
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
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