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Venezuelan ambassador Rocio Maneiro, standing, introduces the address by Francisco Dominguez (sitting, right)
But hospitality industry warns other businesses are being forgotten
SOLIDARITY activists welcomed the launch of a pamphlet to mark Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s first decade in office at Bolivar Hall on Wednesday night.
Author and Venezuela Solidarity Campaign secretary Francisco Dominguez addressed an audience of trade unionists, social justice campaigners and the Venezuelan, Cuban and Nicaraguan ambassadors, outlining Venezuela’s dogged pursuit of socialism at home and anti-imperialism abroad.
When Bolivarian revolutionary leader Hugo Chavez died in 2013, “everyone in the media, the US, the EU thought the opportunity had come to overthrow the revolution,” he said.
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
The US is desperate to stop Honduras’s process of social and democratic change, writes TIM YOUNG
