{"id":53366,"date":"2021-02-25T15:23:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T15:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=182828"},"modified":"2021-02-25T15:23:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T15:23:58","slug":"us-sanctions-on-venezuela-have-failed-to-achieve-anything-but-death-and-misery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/25\/us-sanctions-on-venezuela-have-failed-to-achieve-anything-but-death-and-misery\/","title":{"rendered":"US Sanctions On Venezuela Have Failed To Achieve Anything But Death And Misery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its regime-change effort in Venezuela, the US has imposed devastating sanctions that have caused tens of thousands of deaths among the most vulnerable \u2013 without ever coming close to toppling the president.<\/p>\n<p>Alena Douhan, the UN Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures and human rights \u2013 a new position created by the UN Human Rights Council in March of 2020 \u2013 issued a stinging preliminary\u00a0report\u00a0last week condemning US and EU sanctions against Venezuela. Ms. Douhan has urged the US, EU and other nations to drop all sanctions against Venezuela after her two-week fact-finding mission to the country.<\/p>\n<p>As the report explains, sanctions were first\u00a0\u201cimposed against Venezuela in 2005 and have been severely strengthened since 2015 . . . with the most severe ones being imposed by the United States.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/us-sanctions-on-venezuela-have-failed-to-achieve-anything-but-death-and-misery\/\">US Sanctions On Venezuela Have Failed To Achieve Anything But Death And Misery<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/us-sanctions-on-venezuela-have-failed-to-achieve-anything-but-death-and-misery\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its regime-change effort in Venezuela, the US has imposed devastating sanctions that have caused tens of thousands of deaths among the most vulnerable \u2013 without ever coming close to toppling the president.<br \/>\nAlena Douhan, the UN Special Rapporteur on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5722,377,6652,8724,59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53367,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53366\/revisions\/53367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}