Newsweek: A Blockade Isn't Starvation, It's 'Reaction'
Newsweek reports on Venezuela's 'reaction' to what it blandly terms 'Trump's oil blockade' (Source: Newsweek). What they won't detail is that this 'blockade' is a tool of economic strangulation, a continuation of US policy in Latin America since the Monroe Doctrine. It’s not a 'blockade' in the traditional sense, but a unilateral sanction regime designed to cripple an economy and provoke regime
change, impacting ordinary citizens under the guise of targeting a government. Sound familiar, Cuba? This framing conveniently forgets the coup attempts in 2002 and 2019, heavily backed by the US, or the billions in Venezuelan assets frozen abroad. To call this a 'reaction' implies an isolated incident, not the predictable outcome of decades of intervention and sanctions that, according to the
Center for Economic and Policy Research, killed over 40,000 Venezuelans between 2017 and 2018 alone . How many 'reactions' does it take for the media to call it what it is: economic warfare?