US use of sanctions has ballooned. Yet Venezuela shows the failure both of ‘maximum pressure’ tactics and attempts to leverage sanctions for ambitious goals. A review is urgently needed.
Russia's longest flights are to the tropical beaches of Venezuela, Bali, and Cuba (destinations free from Western sanctions).
Uncertainty over how Trump administration will shape its policies toward key oil suppliers such as Russia, Iran, Venezuela continues to signal ongoing risk in oil market - Anadolu Ajansı
Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump are crafting a wide-ranging sanctions strategy to facilitate a Russia-Ukraine diplomatic accord in the coming months while at the same time squeezing Iran and Venezuela,
However, their simplistic argument does not withstand scrutiny. Evidence shows that U.S. sanctions significantly contributed to Venezuela’s economic implosion, while the easing of sanctions in recent years has been associated with a moderate economic recovery that has helped alleviate the worst of the country’s economic crisis.
"Writing in these pages in November, I noted two points. First, Trump is no stranger to using sanctions and other coercive economic tools. During his first term, Trump leveraged sanctions expansively against Iran,
Indiana lawmakers are proposing legislation to limit foreign investment in the state, including restrictions on businesses headquartered in adversary countries, and creates a foreign agent registry.
Trinidad is a Venezuelan immigrant who is due in August, but she fears that her child will be stateless under Trump's executive order, caught between Venezuela's democratic crisis and the legal tumult of the United States immigration system, the lawsuit said.
U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) have introduced the Removing Our Unsecure Technologies to Ensure Reliability and Security (ROUTERS) Act, a bipartisan effort aimed at protecting American communications networks from the threats posed by foreign-adversary-controlled technology.
This was the first time in recent memory that military aircraft were used to fly migrants out of the country, one U.S. official said.
is the special presidential envoy for “special missions” including to North Korea and Venezuela. Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Mr Putin has repeatedly ...
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