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UN report from 2021 outlining the impact and illegality of the bipartisan US economic war against Venezuela. https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements-and-speeches/2021/02/preliminary-findings-visit-bolivarian-republic-venezuela-special?LangID=E&NewsID=26747 https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15323/ https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/un-report-slams-u-s-economic-sanctions-against-venezuela/ Douhan clarified that hyperinflation has aggravated Venezuela’s economic decline and that the fall of oil prices in 2014 accelerated it. Oil sales, she emphasizes, have long accounted for almost all the government’s income and have, consequently, paid for schools, health care, and social programs. Ultimately, she writes, revenues would “shrink by 99%.” Now “Venezuela faces a lack of necessary machinery, spare parts, electricity, water, fuel, gas, food, and medicine.” Remittances arriving from abroad have drastically fallen, due in part to impediments to bank transfers. Now, she notes, only 20% of normal electricity is available, almost five million Venezuelans have emigrated, and 2.5 million face severe food insecurity because of reduced food imports. “Medical staff positions in public hospitals are 50–70% vacant,” she reported, adding that, mainly because of sanctions, “90% of the population” lives in conditions of extreme poverty. Douhan’s report documents violations of international law. Both the freezing of assets and the U.S. goal of removing Venezuela’s government “violates the sovereign rights” of the nation. The U.S. “state of national emergency” and the reign of sanctions are incompatible with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, she asserted. U.S. extension of extraterrestrial jurisdiction to third countries “is not justified under international law,” Douhan said, referring to countries whose citizens and companies deal with Venezuela. The U.S. abuses “the right to the highest attainable state of health,” the report claims. Douhan pointed to Venezuela’s “lack of doctors and nurses and of sufficient medicines, medical equipment, spare parts, relevant software updates, vaccines, tests, reagents, and contraceptives”—all formerly supplied by the government. She decried violations of the right to water and the right to education. The Special Rapporteur’s report differs in very significant ways from a United Nations survey and set of recommendations released in September 2020. The UN Human Rights Council’s “Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela” at that time produced 409 pages and 65 recommendations. The document’s authors never traveled to Venezuela, however. Setting the tone, their first recommendation called for “prompt, effective, thorough, independent, impartial and transparent investigations into the human rights violations and crimes described in the present report.” Like the Special Rapporteur, the U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a report in February, one that joins in acknowledging a “deteriorating humanitarian situation” in Venezuela. The sole recommendation of the 50-page report was timidly to suggest that “Treasury should ensure that [its] Office of Foreign Assets Control systematically tracks information on inquiries” about the suffering. Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and Policy Research praised the GAO report for providing “more evidence that these unilateral, illegal U.S. sanctions are a form of collective punishment against the Venezuelan population and should be ended immediately.” Weisbrot and co-author Jeffrey Sachs in 2019 documented that sanctions had killed tens of thousands of Venezuelans. Some opposition politicians in Venezuela now oppose U.S. sanctions. They include Timoteo Zambrano, President of the National Assembly’s Foreign Policy Commission, and Henri Falcón, former conservative presidential candidate. But Guaidó, along with his U.S. and other foreign backers, advocates turning the screws even tighter.

Does regular brandname toothpaste contain heavy metals such as lead or mercury?

I’m tired of people blaming this on socialism. Here’s Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela’s sworn interim president, explains the impact of the US’s illegal economic war against the country, reducing govt’s income to 1% and erasing Vzla’s income gains, HDI rise and Gini reduction from the from the Chavez era, all of which performed better than regional peers. https://x.com/upholdreality/status/2008417409841922084

— 🇻🇪 UPDATE: The situation in Venezuela is over, there was no coup; someone launched a quadcopter and the entire security apparatus got paranoid and started shooting at it (and at eachother)

BREAKING NEWS: A COUP D’ÉTAT IS UNDERWAY IN VENEZUELA 🇻🇪 https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/26951 https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/26952 https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/26954 https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/26955

My hatred for Trump and AmeriKKKan Imperialism has actually soared, Thomas Mathew Crooks is an American hero.

— 🇺🇸/🇻🇪 NEW: Sources close to the White House confirm that Trump lost interest in backing opposition leader María Corina Machado as President of Venezuela, because she accepted her Nobel Peace Price instead of demanding it be given to Trump – Washington Post

They invade your country, impose their puppet, loot your mineral resources, and then turn around to blame you for being poor.

Watching the NFL and cheering for a team.

That would explain why Don Beck took down your Turquoise video. The video you did on yellow was also problematic, but the two videos for Red and Purple were spot on correct.

Noam Chomsky on Venezuela. 🇻🇪

⚡️Hamas Condemns US actions in Venezuela in a statement HAMAS: We strongly condemn the American aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Maduro and his wife, and affirm that it constitutes a grave violation of international law through the assault on the sovereignty of an independent state. This aggression is an extension of unjust American policies and interventions that conceal imperial ambitions, which have caused several countries to be plunged into conflicts posing a direct threat to international peace and security. We call on the international community, the United Nations and its institutions, foremost among them the UN Security Council, to take decisions that confront Washington’s aggressive policies and to immediately halt the military attack on Venezuelan territory.

Lenin would be so proud. Read this thread for context. In all do seriousness though, why does Leo keep saying that socialism is more evil than capitalism, without considering that there are different types of Socialism and Capitalism. Socialist nations have done x-y-z in the past, so we shouldn't vote for Mamadani? Does Mamdani come off to you as a Stalinist who is preparing Gulags? I am of course referring to this blog: https://www.actualized.org/insights/cuba-disaster Bonus, Socialist anthem, bread and roses sung before his inauguration:

— 🇺🇸/🇻🇪 NOTE: Currently, the remnants of the Maduro government are still in charge of Venezuela, and the military is on the streets The Vice President, Minister of Defense, and military high command have all vowed not to surrender to the United States. It is very likely another round of strikes, or possibly even an invasion, is needed to put Venezuela firmly under U.S. control.

Perfect take by Rachel Maddow:

> Maduro and Diddy in the same jail Already 2026 isn't real.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇻🇪 NEW: Maduro las landed in New York; he will be escorted to jail, specifically the MDC (Metropolitan Detention Center), the same facility where rapper Sean P. 'Diddy' Combs is incarcerated

—❗️🇻🇪/🇺🇸 BREAKING: Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez has been inagurated as President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela A while ago, she made a statement on TV saying that Venezuela would never accept being a 'colony of any imperial power'.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇨🇺 President Trump: 'We may have to look at Cuba as well. It's a failing nation.' @Middle_East_Spectator

—❗️🇺🇸/🇨🇺 President Trump: 'We may have to look at Cuba as well. It's a failing nation.' @Middle_East_Spectator

—❗️🇺🇸/🇻🇪 NEW: The first image of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro aboard the USS Iwo Jima @Middle_East_Spectator [Telegram]

—❗️🇺🇸/🇻🇪 NEW: The first image of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro aboard the USS Iwo Jima @Middle_East_Spectator [Telegram]

This is the root of the entire American immigration crisis. America has a long history of intervening in South America. There was even a leak in WikiLeaks that Haiti wanted to raise its minimum wage but the U.S. Embassy under Obama intervened to keep denim jeans cheap. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/wikileaks-haiti-let-them-live-3-day/tnamp/ Sincere question, but why is this context for the cause of illegal immigration NEVER brought up in America. Not by the media, politicians, no one.