Spread of coronavirus has not slowed drumbeat of successive layers of punitive measures imposed by the state department
At a time when all of humanity is facing a common, invisible, enemy, world leaders have called for a suspension of economic sanctions that have increasingly become the pursuit of war by other means.
The Trump administration has responded so far by ignoring those appeals and intensifying punitive measures on the two nations it has identified as America’s greatest enemies: Iran and Venezuela.
Related: US indicts Nicolás Maduro and other top Venezuelan leaders for drug trafficking
Related: 'Mask, gown, gloves – none of that exists': Venezuela's coronavirus crisis
Continue reading...Spread of coronavirus has not slowed drumbeat of successive layers of punitive measures imposed by the state department
At a time when all of humanity is facing a common, invisible, enemy, world leaders have called for a suspension of economic sanctions that have increasingly become the pursuit of war by other means.
The Trump administration has responded so far by ignoring those appeals and intensifying punitive measures on the two nations it has identified as America’s greatest enemies: Iran and Venezuela.
Related: US indicts Nicolás Maduro and other top Venezuelan leaders for drug trafficking
Related: ‘Mask, gown, gloves – none of that exists’: Venezuela’s coronavirus crisis
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