VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro was accompanied by thousands of supporters as he officially registered as a candidate for re-election yesterday.
He made the journey to the National Electoral Council offices in Caracas after a symbolic visit to the Mountain Barracks, as late president Hugo Chavez’s resting place is known.
“We arrive at this sacred place to pay honour to our unconquered commander and tell him we won’t ever fail him,” Mr Maduro declared.
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
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



