US sanctions on Venezuela

In the second part of this explainer series, we will be focussing on the impact of the sanctions that were imposed in 2019.

Professor Sonya Surabhi Gupta talks about the breadth of resistance to the US imperial project in Latin America.

We take a look at the sanctions that have been imposed on the country and the debilitating impact these measures have on the lives of the people.

The illegal sanctions imposed by the US on Venezuela have caused billions of dollars of losses for the Venezuelan economy and have killed over 40,000 since 2017

Clashes outside the Venezuelan embassy in Washington DC are continuing with Juan Guaido supporters growing increasingly hostile and violent.

The objectives of the “strongest sanctions” are broadly all the same—that the United States will suffocate a country’s ability to trade and access finance as long as it does not do what the United States of America asks it to do