Post #1381

If a genie, or a demon, showed up and said “I’m granting you six months to improve your precarious life,” what would you do? That is more or less the dilemma the Venezuelan government faces today. As everyone has read by now, the United States government provided a partial and time-limited (six months) suspension of the oil and gas sanctions levied against Venezuela. Other measures relating to the gold trade, banking and state airline Conviasa have been lifted with no expiration date. Still, yankee officials remind us every day that they will slap back these sanctions if the government does not “behave.” In other words, there is sanctions relief in areas that Washington deems strategic, especially given the oil volatility caused by conflicts in Ukraine and in the Middle East, and also the significant pressure caused by the arrival of Venezuelan migrants at its southern border. Surely if Venezuelans, the very ones who did not get a dime from the “humanitarian aid” loudly touted by the US and the Juan Guaidó imaginary government, had ended up on someone else’s doorstep it would not be a problem. But alas, they dared to go north. https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/tales-of-resistance-a-perilous-honeymoon-with-the-us/