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> National Survey of Living Conditions (ENCOVI)—a household survey carried out by three leading Venezuelan universities—in 2020, 94% of respondents reported that their income was insufficient to cover the cost of living, and 80% of respondents received food assistance. The impact of the economic crisis has been magnified by the collapse of the country’s public infrastructure and services.
https://reliefweb.int/report/venezuela-bolivarian-republic/venezuela-complex-emergency-situation-report-9-february-24-2020
#Venezuela #VenezuelaHumanitarianCrisis
Venezuela Complex Emergency Situation Report #9, February 24, 2020 - Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Situation Report in English on Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) and 1 other country about Health and Water Sanitation Hygiene; published on 24 Feb 2020 by IMC

ReliefWeb
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> in March 2019, US Secretary of State #MikePompeo admitted that the Trump administration hoped to worsen Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis through sanctions. He said: “The circle is tightening, the humanitarian crisis is increasing by the hour. (…) You can see the increasing pain and suffering[...]" However, sanctions haven’t toppled the democratically-elected Maduro government or, for that matter, any other government besieged by a blockade.
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-sanctions-a-conversation-with-gregory-wilpert/
#GregoryWilpert #SanctionsUSA
Why Sanctions? A Conversation With Gregory Wilpert

Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy, a book recently published by Brill, offers a comprehensive account of

ZNetwork
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🧵 > ... the long history of Communist countries’ use of food as a weapon, the Venezuelan regime’s manipulation of the food supply comes as no surprise, either. Most Venezuelans—80 percent according to a recent survey—now rely on boxes of food, containing staples such as rice, grain, or oil, from the government.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/venezuelas-suffering-shows-where-illiberalism-leads/606988/

#AnneApplebaum #VuelvenCaras ? #VenezuelaSanctions ?

Venezuela's Suffering Shows Where Illiberalism Leads

Citizens of a once-prosperous nation live amid the havoc created by socialism, illiberal nationalism, and political polarization.

The Atlantic
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> ... the main objectives of the US is to undermine Venezuela’s anti-neoliberal and socialist policies.. two sub-objectives.. First, it wants to prevent.. Venezuela from becoming an anti-capitalist alternative.. to prevent a possible “good example” that could inspire people in other countries to follow a similar path. Second, it also wants to make sure that #VenezuelanResources, mainly its oil reserves, are accessible to transnational capital.
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-sanctions-a-conversation-with-gregory-wilpert/
#ThreatOfAGoodExample
Why Sanctions? A Conversation With Gregory Wilpert

Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy, a book recently published by Brill, offers a comprehensive account of

ZNetwork
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> US planners from Secretary of State Dean Acheson in the late 1940s to the present have warned that "one rotten apple can spoil the barrel." The danger is that the "rot"-social and economic development-may spread.
> This "rotten apple theory" is called the domino theory for public consumption.

https://chomsky.info/unclesam01/

#RottenAppleTheory #DominoTheory #NoamChomsky
#UncleSamReallyWants #DeanAcheson #OneRottenApple

The Threat of a Good Example, by Noam Chomsky (Excerpted from What Uncle Sam Really Wants)

The Noam Chomsky Website.

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> Dulles was referring to Washington’s successful demolition of Guatemala’s first democratic experiment, a ten-year interlude of hope and progress, greatly feared in Washington because of the enormous popular support reported by US intelligence and the “demonstration effect” of social and economic measures to benefit the large majority.
https://tomdispatch.com/noam-chomsky-on-terrorizing-cuba/
#DemonstrationEffect #EconomicEmbargo #EconomicSanctions #GuatemalaAndCuba
Noam Chomsky on Terrorizing Cuba

Those of us of a certain age are unlikely to forget "the most dangerous moment in human history" -- the Cuban missile crisis. I remember hearing John F. Kennedy's address that night -- I was

TomDispatch.com
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> In the past decade, “defiance” has spread through South America, so successfully that not a single US military base is left—even in Colombia, the last holdout, considered secure after huge US aid (keeping to the well-established principle that US aid correlates very closely with severe human rights violations).

https://chomsky.info/20141031-2/

#SouthAmericanDefiance #DefianceInSouthAmerica #USmilitaryBasesInSouthAmerica

Noam Chomsky on the Crisis in Central America and Mexico

The Noam Chomsky Website.

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> One factor in Obama’s support for the coup regime in Honduras, breaking ranks with most of Latin America and even Europe, was probably concern over the #Palmerola air base, called the “unsinkable carrier” when it was used for terrorist attacks against Nicaragua.

#Honduras #UnsinkableCarrier #CountryAsAircraftCarrier

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🧵
> .. in 1954, a State Department official pointed out that "Guatemala has become an increasing threat to the stability of Honduras and El Salvador. Its agrarian reform is a powerful propaganda weapon: its broad social program of aiding the workers and peasants in a victorious struggle against the upper classes and large foreign enterprises has a strong appeal to the populations of Central American neighbors where similar conditions prevail."
#AgrarianReform #EconomicReform #GuatemalaHonduras
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> Well, why did they do it? Why was the United States so afraid of an independent South Vietnam? Well, I think the reason again is pretty clear from the internal government documents. Precisely what they were afraid of was that the “takeover” of South Vietnam by nationalist forces would not be brutal. They feared it would be conciliatory and that there would be successful social and economic development — and that the whole region might work.
https://chomsky.info/198210__/
#BadAppleTheory 🧵
The Legacy of the Vietnam War, Noam Chomsky interviewed by Paul Shannon

The Noam Chomsky Website.