📆 ANNOUNCEMENT: On June 22 at 10:00 a.m. Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Discussion Club will hold a meeting with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, as part of his visit to Russia.
The acute political struggle around #Venezuela, accompanied by sanctions from Western countries, has remained a constant focus of the world community, as well as one of the key topics of modern international relations. The United States recognises the political ineffectiveness of the imposed sanctions, but continues to increase economic pressure, complicating ongoing humanitarian woes in Venezuela. According to Jorge Arreaza, the sanctions against Venezuela "are a crime against humanity".
💡 The participants in the discussion will have a unique opportunity to get a first-hand account of Venezuela's foreign policy strategy, as well as the prospects for its relations with Russia.
🎙 Speakers:
🇻🇪 Jorge Arreaza, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela
🇷🇺 Dmitry Razumovsky, Director of the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Moderator:
🚩 Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club
Working languages: Russian and Spanish.
ℹ️Information for the media: In order to get accredited for the event, please fill out the form on our website or call +7 926 930 77 63.
https://valdaiclub.com/events/announcements/valdai-club-meets-with-foreign-minister-of-venezuela/
The acute political struggle around #Venezuela, accompanied by sanctions from Western countries, has remained a constant focus of the world community, as well as one of the key topics of modern international relations. The United States recognises the political ineffectiveness of the imposed sanctions, but continues to increase economic pressure, complicating ongoing humanitarian woes in Venezuela. According to Jorge Arreaza, the sanctions against Venezuela "are a crime against humanity".
💡 The participants in the discussion will have a unique opportunity to get a first-hand account of Venezuela's foreign policy strategy, as well as the prospects for its relations with Russia.
🎙 Speakers:
🇻🇪 Jorge Arreaza, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela
🇷🇺 Dmitry Razumovsky, Director of the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Moderator:
🚩 Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club
Working languages: Russian and Spanish.
ℹ️Information for the media: In order to get accredited for the event, please fill out the form on our website or call +7 926 930 77 63.
https://valdaiclub.com/events/announcements/valdai-club-meets-with-foreign-minister-of-venezuela/
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Valdai Club Meets with Foreign Minister of Venezuela
On June 22 at 10:00 the Valdai Discussion Club will hold a meeting with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, as part of his visit to Russia.
📆 ANNOUNCEMENT: On November 9, at 12:00 noon, a meeting with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Felix Plasencia will take place at the Valdai Club on the topic, titled "Venezuela: Geopolitics of Unilateral Sanctions and Violations of International Law".
Sanctions pressure on Venezuela has been going on for over 15 years. The humanitarian situation in the country is constantly deteriorating. The UN has repeatedly drawn attention to the inconsistency of unilateral sanctions with the norms of international law. Sanctions not only contribute to the deterioration of a nation’s economy, but also violate fundamental human rights.
The change of power in the United States did not lead to a weakening of restrictions against Caracas. Representatives of the United States, Canada and the EU announced a possible revision of the sanctions policy; however, so far the situation has not changed.
🎙Speaker:
🇻🇪 Felix Plasencia, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela.
Moderator:
🚩 Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club
Working languages: Russian, Spanish.
ℹ️ Information for the media: In order to get accredited for the event, please fill out the form on our website or call +7 926 930 77 63.
A link to the live broadcast of the discussion will be posted on all online platforms used by the Valdai Club: on the website, on Facebook, Vkontakte, Instagram, and Telegram.
🔗 Valdai Club Meets Witn Foreign Minister of Venezuela
#valdaiclub #Venezuela
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Sanctions pressure on Venezuela has been going on for over 15 years. The humanitarian situation in the country is constantly deteriorating. The UN has repeatedly drawn attention to the inconsistency of unilateral sanctions with the norms of international law. Sanctions not only contribute to the deterioration of a nation’s economy, but also violate fundamental human rights.
The change of power in the United States did not lead to a weakening of restrictions against Caracas. Representatives of the United States, Canada and the EU announced a possible revision of the sanctions policy; however, so far the situation has not changed.
🎙Speaker:
🇻🇪 Felix Plasencia, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela.
Moderator:
🚩 Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club
Working languages: Russian, Spanish.
ℹ️ Information for the media: In order to get accredited for the event, please fill out the form on our website or call +7 926 930 77 63.
A link to the live broadcast of the discussion will be posted on all online platforms used by the Valdai Club: on the website, on Facebook, Vkontakte, Instagram, and Telegram.
🔗 Valdai Club Meets Witn Foreign Minister of Venezuela
#valdaiclub #Venezuela
@valdai_club — The Valdai Discussion Club
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Valdai Club Meets Witn Foreign Minister of Venezuela
On November 9, at 12:00 noon, a meeting with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Felix Plasencia will take place at the Valdai Club on the topic, titled "Venezuela: Geopolitics of Unilateral Sanctions and Violations of International Law".
UPD: The livestream is over. The video of the discussion will be available soon via the same link. Stay tuned!
🎥 LIVE (in Spanish): at 12:00 noon, a meeting with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Felix Plasencia will take place at the Valdai Club on the topic, titled "Venezuela: Geopolitics of Unilateral Sanctions and Violations of International Law".
Working languages: Russian, Spanish.
🔗 LIVE: Valdai Club Meets Witn Foreign Minister of Venezuela (In Spanish)
#valdaiclub #Venezuela
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🎥 LIVE (in Spanish): at 12:00 noon, a meeting with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Felix Plasencia will take place at the Valdai Club on the topic, titled "Venezuela: Geopolitics of Unilateral Sanctions and Violations of International Law".
Working languages: Russian, Spanish.
🔗 LIVE: Valdai Club Meets Witn Foreign Minister of Venezuela (In Spanish)
#valdaiclub #Venezuela
@valdai_club — The Valdai Discussion Club
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LIVE: Valdai Club Meets Witn Foreign Minister of Venezuela (In Spanish)
On November 9, at 12:00 noon Moscow time (GMT+3), a meeting with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Felix Plasencia will take place at the Valdai Club on the topic, titled “Venezuela: Geopolitics of Unilateral Sanctions and Violations of International Law”.
🇻🇪🇷🇺 Russia and Venezuela: On the Same Side of the Sanctions Barricades
On November 9, the Valdai Club held a meeting with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Felix Plasencia on the topic “Venezuela: Geopolitics of Unilateral Sanctions and Violations of International Law”.
Opening the event, Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club, noted that Russia and Venezuela are on the same side of the barricades in world politics. He pointed to the coinciding positions of the two countries on a number of multilateral issues and their development of bilateral cooperation.
Foreign Minister Plasencia began his speech with a brief excursion into the history of the liberation of Latin America from Spanish colonialism and with a story about the Bolivarian project, which meant the unification of all the former Spanish colonies into a single state. “This project was not based on the principles of hegemony and expansion, but on the principles of integration,” he stressed, calling this a key contradiction between the Bolivarian vision of the world and the United States’ vision of the world, which was laid out in the Monroe Doctrine.
Venezuela’s integration projects, aimed at developing cooperation and preventing the exploitation of the weak by the strong, cause concern and aggression in Washington. After Venezuela’s return to Bolivarian philosophy, Washington began to view the republic as a threat to US interests. A separate negative reaction from the United States, according to Plasencia, has been elicited by the foreign policy of Venezuela, in particular the good relations of the Bolivarian Republic with Russia, China and Iran and its desire for multilateral cooperation. As a result, the United States is trying to reduce its resource base and impose sanctions aimed at limiting access to high-tech industrial goods for the servicing of the petrochemical and oil industries.
🔗 Russia and Venezuela: On the Same Side of the Sanctions Barricades
#Venezuela #Russia #UnitedStates #sanctions
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On November 9, the Valdai Club held a meeting with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Felix Plasencia on the topic “Venezuela: Geopolitics of Unilateral Sanctions and Violations of International Law”.
Opening the event, Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club, noted that Russia and Venezuela are on the same side of the barricades in world politics. He pointed to the coinciding positions of the two countries on a number of multilateral issues and their development of bilateral cooperation.
Foreign Minister Plasencia began his speech with a brief excursion into the history of the liberation of Latin America from Spanish colonialism and with a story about the Bolivarian project, which meant the unification of all the former Spanish colonies into a single state. “This project was not based on the principles of hegemony and expansion, but on the principles of integration,” he stressed, calling this a key contradiction between the Bolivarian vision of the world and the United States’ vision of the world, which was laid out in the Monroe Doctrine.
Venezuela’s integration projects, aimed at developing cooperation and preventing the exploitation of the weak by the strong, cause concern and aggression in Washington. After Venezuela’s return to Bolivarian philosophy, Washington began to view the republic as a threat to US interests. A separate negative reaction from the United States, according to Plasencia, has been elicited by the foreign policy of Venezuela, in particular the good relations of the Bolivarian Republic with Russia, China and Iran and its desire for multilateral cooperation. As a result, the United States is trying to reduce its resource base and impose sanctions aimed at limiting access to high-tech industrial goods for the servicing of the petrochemical and oil industries.
🔗 Russia and Venezuela: On the Same Side of the Sanctions Barricades
#Venezuela #Russia #UnitedStates #sanctions
@valdai_club — The Valdai Discussion Club
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Russia and Venezuela: On the Same Side of the Sanctions Barricades
On November 9, the Valdai Club held a meeting with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Felix Plasencia on the topic “Venezuela: Geopolitics of Unilateral Sanctions and Violations of International Law”.
🇻🇪 Venezuela is one of the top five countries under US “sanctions” with over 400 government measures.
Venezuela was not only “sanctioned” or blocked. There was an outright persecution aimed at paralyzing the Venezuelan economy and pressuring the constitutional government of President Nicolas Maduro to the point of collapse.
Far from the expected outcome, Venezuela found creative ways to resist what has been in fact a blockade and responded to the illegality of US “sanctions” by creating a legal instrument known as the Anti-Blockade Law to defend Venezuela’s economy and sovereignty.
The Anti-Blockade Law has been key to Venezuela’s path to recovery, writes Carlos Ron, Venezuela’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for North America.
🔗 Using the Law to Fight Illegality: Venezuela’s Anti-Blockade Law
#Norms_and_Values #Venezuela #sanctions
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Venezuela was not only “sanctioned” or blocked. There was an outright persecution aimed at paralyzing the Venezuelan economy and pressuring the constitutional government of President Nicolas Maduro to the point of collapse.
Far from the expected outcome, Venezuela found creative ways to resist what has been in fact a blockade and responded to the illegality of US “sanctions” by creating a legal instrument known as the Anti-Blockade Law to defend Venezuela’s economy and sovereignty.
The Anti-Blockade Law has been key to Venezuela’s path to recovery, writes Carlos Ron, Venezuela’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for North America.
🔗 Using the Law to Fight Illegality: Venezuela’s Anti-Blockade Law
#Norms_and_Values #Venezuela #sanctions
@valdai_club — The Valdai Discussion Club
🇻🇪 Economic warfare, therefore, is not a new phenomenon for Latin America, but rather a non-military tool aimed at coercing whole populations into pursuing regime change with an expected outcome that is favourable to US foreign policy objectives.
Nixon making the economy of Allende’s Chile “scream”, the blockade of Cuba that is over 60 years old, and the more recent “maximum pressure” campaign against Venezuela are just several examples.
In today’s context of transformation, the aspiration of maintaining US hegemony rests on the waging of a hybrid war – which includes an economic component – of worldwide proportions against all its adversaries, not just Russia or China.
The use unilateral coercive measures, as US “sanctions” should correctly be labelled, can have damaging effects on large populations that are as serious as those of conventional warfare. They place development and survival at risk and challenge the principles and values agreed upon by the international community in the United Nations Charter. As a new pluri-polar world order is emerging, resistance to this mechanism of economic warfare is not only possible, but also necessary.
In the case of Venezuela, the US sanctions policy has succeeded in inflicting pain but it has failed in transforming that sentiment into the change of government desired by US policymakers. Rather, it has strengthened Venezuelan resilience and has led to creative and audacious measures and partnerships, writes Carlos Ron, Venezuela's deputy foreign minister for North American affairs, for the 19th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club.
https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/today-s-economic-warfare-a-view-from-venezuela/
#VALDAI2022 #Venezuela
@valdai_club
Nixon making the economy of Allende’s Chile “scream”, the blockade of Cuba that is over 60 years old, and the more recent “maximum pressure” campaign against Venezuela are just several examples.
In today’s context of transformation, the aspiration of maintaining US hegemony rests on the waging of a hybrid war – which includes an economic component – of worldwide proportions against all its adversaries, not just Russia or China.
The use unilateral coercive measures, as US “sanctions” should correctly be labelled, can have damaging effects on large populations that are as serious as those of conventional warfare. They place development and survival at risk and challenge the principles and values agreed upon by the international community in the United Nations Charter. As a new pluri-polar world order is emerging, resistance to this mechanism of economic warfare is not only possible, but also necessary.
In the case of Venezuela, the US sanctions policy has succeeded in inflicting pain but it has failed in transforming that sentiment into the change of government desired by US policymakers. Rather, it has strengthened Venezuelan resilience and has led to creative and audacious measures and partnerships, writes Carlos Ron, Venezuela's deputy foreign minister for North American affairs, for the 19th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club.
https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/today-s-economic-warfare-a-view-from-venezuela/
#VALDAI2022 #Venezuela
@valdai_club
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Today’s Economic Warfare: A View from Venezuela
In the case of Venezuela, the US sanctions policy has succeeded in inflicting pain but it has failed in transforming that sentiment into the change of government desired by US policymakers. Rather, it has strengthened Venezuelan resilience and has led to…
🇻🇪 The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has been in a deep economic and political crisis for almost a decade.
▪️ Both the domestic opposition and a tangible part of the international community dispute the legitimacy of its government.
▪️ The country is being deprived of a large share of foreign investment and has been subjected to many sanctions by the countries of the collective West.
▪️ Venezuela’s population is short of basic necessities and medications, which has led to social unrest and significant emigration.
Despite the desperate situation, the Nicolás Maduro government has managed (at least, so far) to control the political decision-making, rebuff attacks by the opposition and withstand external pressure, including the sanctions.
Moreover, in 2022, the country is expected to see recovery growth, which, according to the more optimistic forecasts, could reach 20 percent.
Russia can benefit from Venezuela’s experience, writes the author of a new Valdai report, titled “Venezuela Under Nicolás Maduro: A Test of Strength”.
https://valdaiclub.com/a/reports/venezuela-under-maduro-a-test-of-strength/
#valdai_report #Venezuela #Maduro #sanctions
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▪️ Both the domestic opposition and a tangible part of the international community dispute the legitimacy of its government.
▪️ The country is being deprived of a large share of foreign investment and has been subjected to many sanctions by the countries of the collective West.
▪️ Venezuela’s population is short of basic necessities and medications, which has led to social unrest and significant emigration.
Despite the desperate situation, the Nicolás Maduro government has managed (at least, so far) to control the political decision-making, rebuff attacks by the opposition and withstand external pressure, including the sanctions.
Moreover, in 2022, the country is expected to see recovery growth, which, according to the more optimistic forecasts, could reach 20 percent.
Russia can benefit from Venezuela’s experience, writes the author of a new Valdai report, titled “Venezuela Under Nicolás Maduro: A Test of Strength”.
https://valdaiclub.com/a/reports/venezuela-under-maduro-a-test-of-strength/
#valdai_report #Venezuela #Maduro #sanctions
📷 ©Sputnik/Magda Hibelli
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Venezuela Under Nicolás Maduro: A Test of Strength
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has been in a deep economic and political crisis for almost a decade. Both the domestic opposition and a tangible part of the international community dispute the legitimacy of its government. The country is being deprived…
🇻🇪 The US strategy for Venezuela under Donald Trump was set out to create a situation of national despair that would lead to a change of government.
▪️ The impact of these 924 illegal coercive measures and the aggressions against Venezuela, according to economists Jeffrey Sachs and Mark Weisbrot, could be calculated at around 40,000 casualties in 2018 alone.
▪️ In comparison to the national income of 2014, the country had lost no less than 70% of its revenue.
▪️ The damage could be felt in access to food and medicine, but also in public services such as water and electricity that under the illegal sanctions had no access to spare parts or maintenance.
President Maduro has shown two firm convictions.
1️⃣ The first is that he will not cede the nation’s sovereignty to the pressure of illegal sanctions. He has stated in clear terms to the US that “Venezuela is to be respected and does not accept colonial models over its gas, oil industry, over its economy, and overt our country.”
2️⃣ But he has also indicated that dialogue and diplomacy is the way; that Venezuela is willing and ready to re-establish relations as long as they are based on mutual respect and an equal footing.
The strategy of “maximum pressure” imposed by Donald Trump on Venezuela has failed to achieve its goal of changing the Venezuelan government and pulling the country back into Washington’s sphere of influence.
The resilience of the Venezuelan people led by President Nicolas Maduro has not only survived the attacks by the Trump Administration, it has resulted in adjustments to Washington’s strategy and has proved that resistance, creativity, and commitment to dialogue can pay off, writes Valdai Club expert Carlos Ron.
https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/venezuela-us-relations-when-maximum-pressure-fails/
#ModernDiplomacy #Venezuela #sanctions
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▪️ The impact of these 924 illegal coercive measures and the aggressions against Venezuela, according to economists Jeffrey Sachs and Mark Weisbrot, could be calculated at around 40,000 casualties in 2018 alone.
▪️ In comparison to the national income of 2014, the country had lost no less than 70% of its revenue.
▪️ The damage could be felt in access to food and medicine, but also in public services such as water and electricity that under the illegal sanctions had no access to spare parts or maintenance.
President Maduro has shown two firm convictions.
1️⃣ The first is that he will not cede the nation’s sovereignty to the pressure of illegal sanctions. He has stated in clear terms to the US that “Venezuela is to be respected and does not accept colonial models over its gas, oil industry, over its economy, and overt our country.”
2️⃣ But he has also indicated that dialogue and diplomacy is the way; that Venezuela is willing and ready to re-establish relations as long as they are based on mutual respect and an equal footing.
The strategy of “maximum pressure” imposed by Donald Trump on Venezuela has failed to achieve its goal of changing the Venezuelan government and pulling the country back into Washington’s sphere of influence.
The resilience of the Venezuelan people led by President Nicolas Maduro has not only survived the attacks by the Trump Administration, it has resulted in adjustments to Washington’s strategy and has proved that resistance, creativity, and commitment to dialogue can pay off, writes Valdai Club expert Carlos Ron.
https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/venezuela-us-relations-when-maximum-pressure-fails/
#ModernDiplomacy #Venezuela #sanctions
@valdai_club
Valdai Club
Venezuela-US Relations: When ‘Maximum Pressure’ Fails
President Maduro has shown two firm convictions. The first is that he will not cede the nation’s sovereignty to the pressure of illegal sanctions. But he has also indicated that dialogue and diplomacy is the way; that Venezuela is willing and ready to re…
🌎 As our world progresses into a new world order described by some as “fair multipolarity”, we must acknowledge that such a transformation will not be met without resistance by the forces wishing to maintain a unipolar world order that is no longer sustainable.
We can come to three important conclusions at this conjuncture:
1️⃣ First, as long as the US uses unilateral coercive measures as a foreign policy tool, it will continue to employ them in attempts to control the energy market and to prevent competitors from having access to resources that could help them surpass US development in key areas.
2️⃣ Second, there is a “new Washington consensus” promoted by US national security strategists directed at building back US technological leadership through public investment used to finance a military-industrial policy where access to oil is key. For this purpose, political and military pressures will be employed along with the sanctions toolkit.
3️⃣ And finally, in light of this new policy, countries must build geopolitical alternatives that diminish US influence on energy markets and financial transactions.
It is through decisive and concerted action by the countries most affected by unilateralism that we can advance towards the global equilibrium that the world requires, writes Carlos Ron, Venezuela’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for North America and President of the Simon Bolivar Institute for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples.
https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/the-continuous-political-and-military-threats/
#ModernDiplomacy #multipolarity #Venezuela
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We can come to three important conclusions at this conjuncture:
It is through decisive and concerted action by the countries most affected by unilateralism that we can advance towards the global equilibrium that the world requires, writes Carlos Ron, Venezuela’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for North America and President of the Simon Bolivar Institute for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples.
https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/the-continuous-political-and-military-threats/
#ModernDiplomacy #multipolarity #Venezuela
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The Continuous Political and Military Threats Against Fair Multipolarity: A View From Venezuela
As our world progresses into a new world order described by some as “fair multipolarity”, we must acknowledge that such a transformation will not be met without resistance by the forces wishing to maintain a unipolar world order that is no longer sustainable.…
🇺🇸🇻🇪 For a long time, Washington has consistently increased sanctions pressure against the government of Nicolas Maduro. Subsequently, the sanctions continued to increase.
Signs of changes began to appear in 2022. In November 2022, following an agreement on negotiations between the government of Nicolas Maduro and the opposition on the 2024 elections, the United States began to reduce sanctions pressure. The US Treasury issued two general licenses that introduced some exceptions to the sanctions regime.
In addition, the US is interested in the world market gaining access to Venezuelan oil, taking into account the ban of supplies from Russia and uncertainty in the energy market due to political factors. At the same time, easing sanctions has its own nuances.
The question is how long-term such a mitigation can last, and what similar US actions in relation to other target states tell us, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Ivan Timofeev.
https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/us-sanctions-against-venezuela-a-temporary-easing/
#EconomicStatecraft #Venezuela #sanctions
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Signs of changes began to appear in 2022. In November 2022, following an agreement on negotiations between the government of Nicolas Maduro and the opposition on the 2024 elections, the United States began to reduce sanctions pressure. The US Treasury issued two general licenses that introduced some exceptions to the sanctions regime.
In addition, the US is interested in the world market gaining access to Venezuelan oil, taking into account the ban of supplies from Russia and uncertainty in the energy market due to political factors. At the same time, easing sanctions has its own nuances.
The question is how long-term such a mitigation can last, and what similar US actions in relation to other target states tell us, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Ivan Timofeev.
https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/us-sanctions-against-venezuela-a-temporary-easing/
#EconomicStatecraft #Venezuela #sanctions
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US Sanctions Against Venezuela: A Temporary Easing?
The practice of using economic sanctions shows that there are many more cases of their imposition or tightening than of their lifting or easing. Therefore, any episode when sanctions pressure is reduced attracts close attention. The easing of sanctions against…