Last November, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, signed a new executive order against Venezuela, imposing sanctions on gold exports and other sectors of the economy. With this are already amounting to five the unilateral measures dictated by the current US administration against our country, qualified by journalist Lucas Koerner as a modern version of the medieval siege.
The journalist and analyst of the US “Venezuela Analysis” research group, during a telephone contact with the “Diplomacia Bolivariana” (Bolivarian Diplomacy) program of RNV’s Informative channel, stated that when a country is deprived of the international credit market, an economic death penalty is issued by cutting off access to credit notes:
“The sanctions are aimed at suffocating the Venezuelan economy”, reflected the journalist while warning that after January 10, when Nicolás Maduro assumes his second presidential term, will be experienced a hardening of the financial blockade against the country.
“It is important for the Venezuelan people and the international community to understand what those sanctions mean, which are nothing more than a modern version of the medieval siege”, insisted the analyst, adding that the United States prefers slow torture to war.
He also warned about the opposition’s strategy that, according to the analyst, seeks to “establish a parallel government” with the support of the US administration: “The move is to try to win legal claims in the United States system, so that Venezuela’s assets in the world can be confiscated”, taking as an example the case of PDVSA’s subsidiary, CITGO.
Although he pointed out that Venezuela is not a priority for the Trump administration, and proof of this is that it has opted for the adoption of sanctions rather than waste resources in a war, he did not rule out the thesis of a military intervention and the oil embargo: “We can not underestimate the irrationality of imperialism.”
