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By Ken Livingstone for The Morning Star THE Westminster government’s “special relationship” with the US was again demonstrated last week as that of a lapdog obeying its master while hoping for a few crumbs from the table. Specifically, on June 9 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) revealed that the secret Venezuela Reconstruction Unit had …

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By Ken Livingstone for The Morning Star RECENT revelations of a “Venezuela Reconstruction Unit” in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office show that once again Britain’s Conservative government is falling into line with US foreign policy and acting as Trump’s poodles on the world stage. The unit’s stated aims are to “co-ordinate a British approach to …

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The Venezuela Solidarity Campaign (VSC) condemns the existence of a secretive Foreign and Commonwealth Office unit planning for the ‘reconstruction’ of the sovereign nation of Venezuela, following the overthrow of the democratically elected government of President Maduro. Documents obtained through Freedom of Information requests reveal the extent of the government’s commitment to support the ambitions …

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By Francisco Dominguez Originally published at Public Reading Rooms On May 3rd a bunch of mercenaries, led by Rambo-like US soldiers of fortune attempted to disembark on the coastal town of Macuto in the La Guaira state in Venezuela’s Caribbean coast, in a so-called Operation Gedeon.  Their leader, ‘contractor’ Jordan Goudreau, CEO of US ‘security …

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by Tony Burke THE Venezuelan government wrote to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) seeking funds from its rapid financing instrument (RFI) to “strengthen its detection and response systems” during the coronavirus pandemic. The IMF claims that RFI loans “can be disbursed very quickly to assist member countries implement policies to address emergencies such as the …

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by Ken Livingstone AS STATES around the world struggle to tackle to coronavirus pandemic, Venezuela’s efforts to protect its population are being severely jeopardised by Trump’s aggressive tactics which have been ramped up over the past few weeks. Trump’s strengthening of illegal US sanctions against Venezuela since 2017 — creating an economic blockade of the …

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