Reply To: Venezuela
Maduro has a point that, insofar as there is a humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, imposing sanctions on the government is counterproductive as it makes things worse. It is always ordinary people who suffer from sanctions not the ruling elite. The calculation of Trump and the states he has in tow is that by making the situation in Venezuela worse people will turn to support their puppet replacement as president. Completely cynical without concern for the suffering people they feign to be concerned about. All they want is regime change and are prepared to play politics with people’s lives to get it. Nothing new there, then. Capitalist diplomacy as usual.
That is what they tried to do in Cuba and it did not work. The other cynical thing is that they have imposed an embargo which has cost more than 350 billions and created misery in the peoples and now they want to aliviate the hunger with a few dollars named humanitarian aid. The Red crosos did not want to be part of it. It is also known that the aid is composed of industrial rejects and out of date foods which the USA buy at huge discount from supermarkets and manufacturers. The Venezuelan millitary want to stop the so called humanitarian aid because they might be sending weapons along with the aid