#NewWorldReport: #VENEZUELA: Sanctioning Caracas again. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
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🗓️ 1 February 2024
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#NewWorldReport: #VENEZUELA: Sanctioning Caracas again. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
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| 0:40.0 | The Reuters headline tells the story. |
| 0:43.0 | Venezuela is prepared for U.S sanctions on oil. |
| 0:47.0 | The backstory here is so vast. |
| 0:49.0 | I'll go right to the point right now. |
| 0:51.0 | There is an election pending in Venezuela this year. Venezuela is a |
| 0:57.2 | failed state under a dictator called Maduro. However there is a candidate, Ms. Machado, who represents the opposition, standing for |
| 1:07.8 | the presidency would be one way to challenge Maduro. |
| 1:11.6 | That's been ruled out by a court, a Supreme Court or the |
| 1:16.2 | equivalent in Caracas and now the US having talked about lifting some sanctions, there's a lot of caveats here, is now thinking |
| 1:26.2 | of reimposing sanctions. Venezuela is claiming it's ready for it, although this will cut into the revenue stream that's |
| 1:34.8 | promised we have the giana matter as well professor I can't unpack all of this it's not |
| 1:41.0 | surprising that the US is going to move against Maduro he does not |
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