On Wednesday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro called <https://x.com/petrogustavo/status/1818636682704392473> on the Biden administration to end the “anti-human” measure, adding that the sanctions only bring more hunger and violence.
Washington has embraced a policy of intense sanctions — implemented <https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-administration-announces-sanctions-targeting-venezuelas-oil-industry/2019/01/28/4f4470c2-233a-11e9-90cd-dedb0c92dc17_story.html> under President Donald Trump and largely continued by President Joe Biden — as a way to pressure the general population to force Maduro out of office. That aim has so far not been achieved, though it has devastated the nation’s economy, leading to the deaths of tens of thousands of Venezuelans and forcing millions more to flee — fueling the migration crisis at the U.S. border in the process. “How can we blame asylum-seekers fleeing desperation and poverty if we’re contributing to the very desperation and poverty that they’re trying to escape?” Sanctions have become an increasingly popular tool for U.S. foreign policy <https://theintercept.com/2023/06/12/iran-sanctions-medicine/> because they are perceived to be less harmful than outright war or proxy war. United Nations experts have argued <https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2018/11/civilians-caught-sanctions-crossfire-need-geneva-convention-protection-says> that these coercive measures amount to economic warfare, and civilians harmed by sanctions “deserve the same protections provided by the Geneva Conventions to people in war.” https://theintercept.com/2024/08/02/venezuela-election-maduro-us-sanctions-democracy/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31482): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31482 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/107724199/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
