The Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL) yesterday expressed its strongest condemnation of the abduction of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro and his wife by the United States. The CPSL in a statement issued by its General Secretary Dr. G. Weerasinghe said that this act of international piracy ranks alongside the US abduction of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the murder of Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba of the Democratic Republic of Congo.