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Weekly Report - 05 March 2015 (WR-15-09)
VENEZUELA: Maduro launches ‘reciprocal’ sanctions against US
With the Summit of the Americas scheduled for 10-11 April in Panama just over a month away, Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has launched a diplomatic ‘reciprocity’ offensive against the US which has led several political pundits to wonder aloud whether ‘Venezuela might become the new Cuba’. This is an allusion to years of refusal by the US to sit at the same table as Cuba, and to the fact that, in the current climate of diplomatic rapprochement, Cuba’s President Raúl Castro will be attending the Summit as well as his US peer, Barack Obama.
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