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Whose emergency in Venezuela?
The region should ignore ill-advised American sanctions and hold Nicolás Maduro to account
Mar 21st 2015 | From the print edition
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IT WAS the kind of diplomatic clumsiness for which the United States has a unique capacity. On March 9th Barack Obama issued an executive order declaring “a national emergency” because of the “extraordinary threat to the national security” of the United States posed by Venezuela. Really? Is Uncle Sam scared of a country with a government that is incapable of organising a reliable supply of toilet paper, an army whose best-known capabilities are coups, petrol smuggling and drug trafficking, and a president who spent most of January touring the world to beg for cash?
http://www.economist.com/news/americ...nicol-s-maduro
The region should ignore ill-advised American sanctions and hold Nicolás Maduro to account
Mar 21st 2015 | From the print edition
Timekeeper
IT WAS the kind of diplomatic clumsiness for which the United States has a unique capacity. On March 9th Barack Obama issued an executive order declaring “a national emergency” because of the “extraordinary threat to the national security” of the United States posed by Venezuela. Really? Is Uncle Sam scared of a country with a government that is incapable of organising a reliable supply of toilet paper, an army whose best-known capabilities are coups, petrol smuggling and drug trafficking, and a president who spent most of January touring the world to beg for cash?
http://www.economist.com/news/americ...nicol-s-maduro