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An Attack on the Most Vulnerable: U.S. Sanctions on Venezuela
An Attack on the Most Vulnerable: U.S. Sanctions on Venezuela
January 9, 2021
In early 2020 as the world braced for the Covid-19 pandemic, only 20 percent of Venezuela’s hospitals had basic supplies. By May, projections predicted 4,000 daily cases in Venezuela between June and September. Without a functioning healthcare system, medical professionals have had to use motels and makeshift facilities to treat Covid. In the city of Maracaibo, the Central University Hospital has only nine ICU beds and six hours of running water available per day.
Exacerbated by a burgeoning humanitarian crisis under President Nicolas Maduro, Covid-19 has wreaked immeasurable damage to the population amidst increased U.S. sanctions. For even as Venezuelans continue to receive makeshift medical care in motels, with no end in sight to the pandemic, the United States has continued its policy of economic sanctions designed to cut off the Ma
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In a recent press conference, Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) derided the Mérida Initiative – the country’s security cooperation framework with the US – for adopting a militarised approach to organised crime instead of focusing on the development and wellbeing of the Mexican people. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs followed this up by announcing that the Mérida Initiative had officially ended, as it was no longer meeting Mexico’s needs.
The relationship has been fraught with mutual distrust, culminating in the recent arrest and the subsequent release of former Mexican Secretary of Defence General Salvador Cienfuegos, accused of high-level corruption by US authorities. However, despite the differences, it has never been more important for US-Mexico security cooperation to reach for the defibrillator, and finding common ground could be easier than it might initially seem.