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Security & Strategic Review - March 2015 (ISSN 1741-4202)
US sanctions against Venezuela trigger regionwide rejection
When on 9 March the US government announced a new batch of sanctions against Venezuelan officials, it looked like a tit-for-tat response to President Nicolás Maduro’s late February announcement of forthcoming ‘reciprocal’ sanctions against US officials. However, the manner in which the US announcement was relayed by the media, and eagerly picked up by the Venezuelan government, gave Maduro the excuse to obtain extraordinary powers and order a military alert to resist an expected military intervention. It also led to almost universal condemnation in Latin America of the US action, portrayed as interference in Venezuela’s internal affairs — even by governments deemed far friendlier to Washington than to Caracas.
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