Al Jazeera Discovers Venezuelans Want Food, Not US Sanctions
The profound insight from Al Jazeera: "Most Venezuelans 'more concerned' about basic needs." Shocking. While this is presented as a neutral observation, it sidesteps the rather inconvenient fact that the US government, under Republican and Democratic administrations, has systematically strangled Venezuela's economy with crushing sanctions since at least 2017. These sanctions, documented by the
Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) in 2019, aimed to destabilize the Maduro government but, predictably, collapsed the economy and exacerbated humanitarian crises, costing tens of thousands of lives. One might almost infer that interfering in a country's economic life while simultaneously feigning surprise at its people's 'basic needs' concerns is, shall we say, a calculated irony. So,
yes, Venezuelans are worried about food and medicine (a natural byproduct of having your oil industry targeted by foreign powers) , not whether Trump sends another tweet about 'freedom.' The corporate media rarely connects those dots, portraying such suffering as organic 'government failures' rather than the predictable outcome of deliberate, extraterritorial economic warfare. It seems some
nations just need a little 'democracy' injected directly into their supply chains until they comply.