United States President Donald Trump signaled again this week he was “seriously considering a move to make Venezuela the 51st state.” The statement comes just months after the US military assault on the South American country and kidnapping of its president, Nicolás Maduro. Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodríguez responded saying her country was “not a colony” and that “President Trump knows that we have been working on a diplomatic agenda of cooperation.” But for Elías Jaua, a former vice-president under Hugo Chávez, Venezuela is today under US “military occupation,” “coercive tutelage” and “neo-colonial administration.” Speaking to LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, he said the Venezuelan state should be denouncing this “serious act of aggression”. Interviewed by Federico Fuentes, Jaua discussed Trump’s plan for Venezuela, the domestic political factors that facilitated the January 3 assault, why the US left the government in power, and how competing political forces and the population have responded since. A committed Chavista, revolutionary socialist and Director of the Centre for Studies on Socialist Democracy (CEDES), Jaua also outlined his views on the Maduro government and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, the state of popular participation, and the solidarity Venezuela needs today. Read full interview at https://links.org.au/former-chavez-vp-venezuela-needs-new-struggle-liberation
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