Extraordinary Threat
Extraordinary Threat The US foreign policy decisions behind six coup attempts against the Venezuelan government - and Venezuela's heightening precarityIn March 2015, President Obama initiated…
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Extraordinary Threat
The US foreign policy decisions behind six coup attempts against the Venezuelan government - and Venezuela's heightening precarityIn March 2015, President Obama initiated sanctions against Venezuela, declaring a "national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the situation in Venezuela." Each year, the US administration has repeated this claim. Tens of thousands of Venezuelans continue to die because of these ever-tightening US sanctions, denying people daily food, medicine, and fuel. But, as Joe Emersberger and Justin Podur argue in their timely book, Extraordinary Threat, the opposite is true: It is the US policy of regime change in Venezuela that constitutes an "extraordinary threat" to Venezuelans.
On top of this, Venezuela has, since 2002, been subjected to