In an interview, see: https://www.democracynow.org/2019/5/1/economist_jeffrey_sachs_us_sanctions_have given to Amy Goodman on
Venezuela the prestigious economist Jeffrey Sachs exhibits a deplorable
ideological blindness and, worse, some disdain for the precision in numbers
that should characterize economists. The interview includes a reference to a
report published by the Center for Economic and Policy Research , co-authored
by Sachs and Mark Weisbrot, a known Chavista supporter in the U.S. In this
report Sachs affirms: “more than 40,000 people have died in
Venezuela since 2007 as a result of U.S. sanctions, by reducing the
availability of food and medicines in Venezuela.
However, when prompted by Goodman
to explain how he came to this number he answers: “Nobody
knows…. I don’t want anyone to think
that there is precision in these numbers.....
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