US Frets Over Fentanyl in Venezuela While Sanctioning Medicine
The US government, through outfits like the DEA, recently declared Venezuela a 'strategic partner' in fentanyl trafficking, despite admitting the nation produces none of the drug itself. This, we're told, is the new justification for Washington's decades-long 'democracy promotion' project in Caracas. One might wonder about the timing, given the humanitarian toll of sanctions—an estimated 100,000
to 500,000 Venezuelans died between 2017 and 2020 due to lack of access to medicines and food, according to the UN Special Rapporteur on Unilateral Coercive Measures. (But hey, at least they don't have fentanyl, right?) So, while the Biden administration expresses deep concern over a hypothetical fentanyl problem, its actual policies directly starve hospitals and prevent critical medical imports.
It's almost as if 'humanitarian concern' is just a revolving door of convenient pretexts, always landing on 'regime change' rather than actual human welfare. (Who needs medicine when you can have 'freedom' from the country that sells you gas?)