Mark Weisbrot — Behind the White House’s Sanctions Against Venezuela

The Latin American governments understand this strategy and see it as an ugly threat to democracy in the region; hence their quick response and fierce opposition to the sanctions.

Latin American leaders are all too aware of US history from slavery followed by cultural and institutional racism, Native American genocide,  "gunboat diplomacy," and the Spanish-American War, to the Bay of Pigs, the overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile, the Pinochet dictatorship, and the death squads, and the coup against Hugo Chavez that was foiled, right down to the recent overthrow of democracy in Honduras and now the foiled coup against the Maduro government in Venezuela.

Counterpunch
Behind the White House’s Sanctions Against Venezuela

Mark Weisbrot | co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, in Washington, D.C. and president of Just Foreign Policy

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