Mison Verdad Swiss private banks reject transactions and close Venezuelan accounts for fear of reprisals from the United States (Photo: Reuters) Another Instance of Extraterritorial and Illegal Application of White House Measures Commercial and financial punitive measures are depriving Venezuelan representations of their diplomatic powers in Bern and Geneva. This was revealed by the Swiss…
Category: SANCTIONS
Sowing Hardship and Discouragement: The Failed American Strategy Against Cuba
Raúl Antonio Capote The enmity of the United States Government led by Dwight D. Eisenhower against Cuba manifested itself on January 1, 1959 when it welcomed the murderers and torturers of the Batista dictatorship who fled to the United States with more than 400 million dollars belonging to Cuban public funds. One of the first…
US Imposes New Sanctions Targeting Venezuela’s Food Program
Lucas Koerner The Trump administration announced new sanctions Monday targeting three individuals and sixteen companies allegedly tied to Venezuela’s subsidized CLAP food distribution program. The measure freezes all assets belonging to Amir Luis Saab, Luis Alberto Saab and David Nicolas Rubio, as well as those of all entities in which they have 50 or more…
Sanctions: War by Other Means
Tatuy Televisión Comunistaria< Since 2014, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has been subjected to no less than 150 unilateral coercive measures or sanctions, centralized in at least 40 legal instruments and executive orders by the U.S. government and its allies: the European Union, the United Kingdom, the Lima Group, Canada, Panama, and Switzerland. All these…
Iran Economic Sanctions Kill as Effectively as Bombs
The Trump administration’s illegal economic sanctions against Iran makes it impossible to import essential medicines, says CEPR’s Mark Weisbrot.
Insidious Aggression: Sanctions as Covert Warfare
Tim Beal Sanctions are merely warfare by another name The most successful murder, it is said, is one that is not recognized as murder but can be passed off as suicide or accident. This avoids the problem of disposing of the body, a dangerous and troublesome thing according to the literature and one which the…
