House Speaker Nancy Pelosi officially endorses the attempted coup in Venezuela, joining forces with Donald Trump and his posse of neoconservatives. Venezuela’s Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Ron responds to the threats of military action, the reports about covert U.S. activity in the country, and discusses the impact of the sanctions on Venezuela.
Former United Nations rapporteur Alfred de Zayas is accusing the U.S. of attempting to “asphyxiate” Venezuela with economic warfare and says the U.S. should be investigated by the International Criminal Court. Zayas wrote a UN report on Venezuela in late 2018 that was scathing in its assessment of U.S. policy towards Venezuela under both Obama and Trump. He talks about what he found during his investigation.
And we go inside the mind of journalist Sam Husseini who tried to ask convicted criminal Elliott Abrams about his past and the present U.S. lies about Venezuela.
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This content originally appeared on Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill and was authored by The Intercept.
The Intercept | Radio Free (2019-02-13T11:00:00+00:00) Neoliberalism or Death: The U.S. Economic War Against Venezuela. Retrieved from https://www.radiofree.org/2019/02/13/neoliberalism-or-death-the-u-s-economic-war-against-venezuela-5/
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