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by Context_free 1934 days ago
The US is imposing not just US sanctions but a blockade on Venezuela, with one goal to block Covid vaccines from coming in (unless Venezuela bows down to a list of US demands). The US, UK etc. have pilfered Venezuelan money deposited in US and UK banks, also removing funds for vaccine purchase. It's akin to what the US did to Iraq in the 1990s (prior to the two invasions and current occupation of that country).

https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15086
1 comments
notahacker 1934 days ago
The UK sanctions are against 36 named individuals. If Venezuela is claiming the army chief's personal offshore bank account being frozen is stopping them accessing funds for public healthcare, the problems with its economy obviously start at home...
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Context_free 1934 days ago
When the money was frozen, UK PM Boris Johnson said "we may have to tighten the economic screw on Venezuela". So the Prime Minister of the UK seems to have a different opinion on this.
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notahacker 1934 days ago
Did he mean (a) let's pressurise the Venezuelan government to step down by freezing the personal wealth they've chosen to stash overseas or (b) let's deprive their health service of funds, which are obviously in the UK, for very normal reasons?

Well we could always look at the names of the 36 people sanctioned...

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