British MPs from all parties called for the Labour leader to state his current position with regard to supporting Venezuela’s leadership. International censure of Venezuela’s Mr Maduro grew following two opposition leaders being seized from their homes in the middle of the night after the sham election. (see this week’s Prayer-Alert Venezuela article, below). Mr Corbyn has previously praised Venezuela as a ‘better way of doing things’ under Mr Maduro’s predecessor and mentor, Hugo Chávez, and welcomed Chávez to London in 2006. Mr Maduro has described Mr Corbyn as a ‘friend of Venezuela’. The Labour leader lauded Mr Maduro’s regime in June 2015, saying that its achievements in housing, health, education and jobs were ‘a cause for celebration’. However, Venezuela has failed its citizens. There are food shortages, hyperinflation, citizens locked up, disappeared or murdered and there is a flow of cocaine from the country to Britain.
Jeremy Corbyn under pressure to condemn violent Venezuela regime
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- Pray: for Jeremy Corbyn and all who stand for human rights in our government to evaluate the current Venezuela situation clearly and act with wisdom and discernment. (Job 34:4)
- More: www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/labour-mps-urge-corbyn-to-condemn-venezuela-0r8nnsqf7
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