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We must end Britain's illegal sanctions on Venezuela
To step up opposition to US intervention in Latin America we need to confront our own government’s role in trying to force ‘regime change’ on the struggling socialist nation, writes TIM YOUNG
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro

IMAGINE the chaos and hardship that British people would be experiencing if the government lost 99 per cent of its 2021-22 income of £915 billion.

Yet this is what US sanctions had exacted upon Venezuelan citizens by 2021, six years after the US had levied its first set of illegal coercive measures against the Venezuelan government.

These unilateral coercive measures were designed to bring about “regime change” and replace an elected government with a compliant administration that would no longer pose a challenge to US economic and political interests in the region.

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