Yesterday Juan Guaido with support from US allies attempted a coup, again claiming that he had the backing of the Venezuelan military.
Democracy Now! reports that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has declared the most recent US-backed coup attempt defeated; 1 death and over 100 injuries resulted from the clashes yesterday.
Here's a two-and-a-half minute video of Anya Parampil from GreyZone on Tucker Carlson on FOX, demolishing talking points like a boss. I know, fuck Tucker Carlson and FOX, but I think she catches Carlson off-guard a little and gives a counter-point to what FOX News viewers have been spoon-fed.
Here's a link to the study she referenced regarding Venezuelan deaths attributable to US economic sanctions:
Economic Sanctions as Collective Punishment: The Case of Venezuela
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We find that the sanctions have inflicted, and increasingly inflict, very serious harm to human life and health, including an estimated more than 40,000 deaths from 2017 to 2018; and that these sanctions would fit the definition of collective punishment of the civilian population as described in both the Geneva and Hague international conventions, to which the US is a signatory. They are also illegal under international law and treaties that the US has signed, and would appear to violate US law as well.
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In an added twist, Erik Prince of Blackwater infamy (and brother to Betsy DeVos, the cancerous Education Secretary) had been
lobbying the Trump Administration to allow him to set up a force of 5,000 mercenaries to overthrow Maduro and install a US puppet; glad that plan hasn't come to fruition. Yet.