Sanctions

Top economists & UN experts condemn US sanctions on Venezuela. Not newsworthy enough for the media?

As the Trump administration continues to wage economic warfare against Venezuela, experts and economists continue to slam the illegal and deadly measures — and the media continues to completely ignore their warnings.

To experiment, simply Google the phrase “condemns US sanctions” (with the quote marks) and you’ll quickly learn from multiple mainstream media sources that North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and Russia are not big fans of US sanctions. It's an easy, uncomplicated narrative: Washington punishes the ‘bad guys’ and the bad guys complain about it.

It seems Google knows less about the UN Human Rights Council, which has explicitly condemned US sanctions on Venezuela, stating that they are “disproportionately affecting the poor and the most vulnerable classes.”

...More recently, analysis by prominent economists Mark Weisbrot and Jeffrey Sachs for the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), found that US sanctions have led directly to the premature deaths of 40,000 Venezuelans. The sanctions also “fit the definition of collective punishment of the civilian population” under the Geneva and Hague Conventions, the report said.