Amid tumbling oil prices, the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, and shipments of Iranian gasoline to Venezuelan consumers, U.S. sanctions on Venezuela are facing increasing scrutiny. Critics argue that sanctions are contributing to the country’s economic collapse, thereby exacerbating the humanitarian crisis and increasing suffering among Venezuelans. At the same time, despite specific victories, sanctions have failed to deliver a political transition, and the power struggle between Juan Guaidó and Nicolás Maduro endures with no end in sight. This underscores the limitations of sanctions as a foreign policy tool and calls into question their role within the U.S. maximum pressure campaign on the Maduro regime.....
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https://www.csis.org/analysis/can-sanctions-venezuela-be-improved
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