In a stunning announcement on Jan. 11, Sec. of State Mike Pompeo declared that the State Department was designating Cuba “a State Sponsor of Terrorism” for allegedly repeatedly “providing support for acts of international terrorism in granting safe harbor to terrorists.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday announced that the U.S. is placing Cuba on the list of state sponsors of terrorism, reversing an Obama-era decision that aimed to normalize diplomatic relations between the U.S. and the communist island.
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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