05/16/2021 | News release | Distributed by Public on 05/17/2021 13:24
The US Plan to Imprison Businesspeople in other Countries for âViolatingâ Illegal US Sanctions: The Case of Alex Saab
Images from the protest in Caracas, Venezuela in February, 2021.
Alex Saad was detained in Cape Verde June 12, 2020 during a stopover to Iran, to be extradited to the US for the crime of violating US unilateral sanctions on Venezuela. He had been on a mission to acquire basic food and medicine to supply the government s social welfare food program (CLAP).
The US uses economic sanctionsas a tool to overthrow governments, such as Venezuela s, that do not kow-tow to it. Sanctions are a weapon of war on civilians the US uses to make the economy scream, preventing the import of necessities such as food, medicine, and equipment to keep infrastructure and industries running. Sanctions drive capital flight from countries as corporations and financial institutions seek to distance themselv