[Venezuela] #8 Eindspel

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New York Times: "Niet Maduro-regime maar betogers staken vrachtwagens met humanitaire hulp in brand"

Niet de Venezolaanse overheid, maar de anti-Madurobetogers zouden verantwoordelijk zijn voor het uitbranden van drie vrachtwagens met humanitaire hulp eind februari. Dat schrijft The New York Times op basis van nieuwe beelden. De vrachtwagens vlogen vermoedelijk in brand toen een molotovcocktail - weliswaar per ongeluk - op de lading belandde.

Freek Willems
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Ondraaglijke stank

Op de kraamafdeling werden baby’s ter wereld gebracht onder het licht van mobiele telefoons van verpleegsters en soms zelfs met kaarslicht. In het mortuarium van Caracas konden lijken niet worden gekoeld, omwonenden klaagden over een ondraaglijke stank.

Zaterdag gingen zowel aanhangers van Maduro als Guaidó de straat op om te protesteren. Volgens lokale en internationale media waren er bij de anti-regeringsprotesten tienduizenden mensen en trok het pro-regeringsprotest van Maduro enkele duizenden aanhangers. Hoe langer de stroomstoring duurt, hoe explosiever de situatie wordt, vreest Melvin Chacón.

„Ons land takelt verder af en mensen raken gefrustreerd, er kunnen rellen uitbreken en de situatie kan verder exploderen”, appt hij.

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- On Monday, the U.S. accused Russia of aggravating political tensions in Venezuela. That prompted the Kremlin to repeat its claim that the White House has been trying to orchestrate a "coup."

- It comes less than 48 hours after two Russian military planes touched down in Caracas, fueling speculation that Moscow is seeking to bolster its presence in the oil-rich, but cash-poor, country.

- The U.S. has sought to ratchet up the pressure on Russia to sever its diplomatic, economic and military ties with Venezuela, but to no avail.

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Op dinsdag 12 maart 2019 22:50 schreef Individual het volgende:
Nu maar eens kijken of dit topic deel 9 nog haalt met dezefde TT.

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Op vrijdag 5 april 2019 11:29 schreef raptorix het volgende:
Was er niet een Fokker die hier naar toe wilde emigreren?

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The call to expand the militia - which answers directly to Mr Maduro - comes as opposition leader Juan Guaidó seeks to persuade the Venezuelan military to abandon the president.

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Report Finds US Sanctions on Venezuela Are Responsible for Tens of Thousands of Deaths

Washington, DC ― A new paper from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), by economists Mark Weisbrot and Jeffrey Sachs, finds that economic sanctions implemented by the Trump administration since August 2017 have caused tens of thousands of deaths and are rapidly worsening the humanitarian crisis.

“The sanctions are depriving Venezuelans of lifesaving medicines, medical equipment, food, and other essential imports,” said Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of CEPR and co-author of the report. “This is illegal under US and international law, and treaties that the US has signed. Congress should move to stop it.”

The paper notes that the recognition by the Trump administration of a parallel government in January created a whole new set of financial and trade sanctions that are devastating to the economy and population. These new restrictions make it much more difficult to even pay for medicines and other essential imports with the limited foreign exchange that is available.

The authors also explain how the sanctions prevent an economic recovery from the country’s severe economic depression and hyperinflation.
“Venezuela’s economic crisis is routinely blamed all on Venezuela,” said Jeffrey Sachs, co-author of the paper. “But it is much more than that. American sanctions are deliberately aiming to wreck Venezuela’s economy and thereby lead to regime change. It’s a fruitless, heartless, illegal, and failed policy, causing grave harm to the Venezuelan people.”

Among the results of broad economic sanctions implemented by the Trump administration since August 2017:

- An estimated more than 40,000 deaths from 2017–18;

- The sanctions have reduced the availability of food and medicine, and increased disease and mortality;

- The August 2017 sanctions contributed to a sharp decline in oil production that caused great harm to the civilian population;

- The US sanctions implemented since January, if they continue will almost certainly result in tens of thousands more avoidable deaths;

- This is based on an estimated 80,000 people with HIV who have not had antiretroviral treatment since 2017, 16,000 people who need dialysis, 16,000 people with cancer, and 4 million with diabetes and hypertension (many of whom cannot obtain insulin or cardiovascular medicine);

- Since the sanctions that began in January 2019, oil production has fallen by 431,000 barrels per day or 36.4 percent. This will greatly accelerate the humanitarian crisis, but the projected 67 percent decline in oil production for the year, if the sanctions continue, would cause vastly more loss of human life.

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BreakingNLive twitterde op dinsdag 30-04-2019 om 12:47:00 BREAKING NEWS: Military coup underway in Venezuela, armed forces of Guaido securing strategic areas of the capital - ELINT NEWS reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 30 april 2019 15:45 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
Ik ben benieuwd of het nu dan echt gaat gebeuren. Te vaak hebben we de signalen gehoord maar dat er dan vervolgens niets veranderd.

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Op dinsdag 30 april 2019 16:21 schreef trein2000 het volgende:

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Er gebeurd in ieder geval iets. Maar het kan nog beide kanten op zo ik begrijp.

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Op dinsdag 30 april 2019 16:37 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:

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Ik zie alleen niet hoe dit vreedzaam kan verlopen. Tenzij de achterban van Maduro opeens zonder problemen van kant wisselt?