Cruel and Indiscriminate

Cruel and Indiscriminate While the recent attack on Venezuela and the capture of President Nicolás Maduro have been a startling and disturbing escalation of U.S. antagonism toward the country, U.S. economic sanctions against Venezuela for the past two decades have done considerable damage in their own right and serve as a precursor to the recent military aggression. Economic measures have often been employed in the context of warfare, sometimes with devastating effect, as in the siege of Leni...