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Boris Petrov's avatar

“Venezuela is fundamental threat to USA” -- declared Obama formally initiating regime change.

What he meant is “Socialism is a threat to capitalism”… hence imperial War-party endless wars -- against Bolivia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Syria, Cuba, Libya, China…..

Defund US military terrorism

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Cort Youngen Greene's avatar

An interesting article but I think you have forgot about the dismantling of the gains of the revolution and neo liberal policies being put forward by the Maduristas government and what he calls in alliance with the 'Revolutionary bourgeoisie"... https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/15136

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Andrew Daly's avatar

Great article. If it wasn't in reference to harming millions of innocent Venezuelans it would be hard not to laugh at the absurdity of a government official correctly declaring a policy a failure and then saying there are no plans to alter it.

With regards to sanctions as a U.S. policy and weapon, do you have any writing or recommendations of where to read about their broader history and evolution?

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Daniel Larison's avatar

Richard Hanania wrote a very good report on this last year for Cato. I wrote about this at the time. The original article seems to be unavailable at the moment, but keep checking the link https://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/the-futility-and-cruelty-of-sanctions-2/

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Andrew Daly's avatar

Appreciate it! Original article is working for me and will read yours as well.

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Boris Petrov's avatar

“Venezuela is fundamental threat to USA” -- declared Obama formally initiating regime change.

What he meant is “Socialism is a threat to capitalism”… hence imperial War-party endless wars -- against Bolivia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Syria, Cuba, Libya, China….. Defund US military terrorism

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