{"id":45148,"date":"2019-04-08T07:50:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T12:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45148"},"modified":"2019-04-08T08:05:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T13:05:49","slug":"amid-blackouts-and-food-shortages-pence-unveils-new-sanctions-targeting-venzuelan-oil-exports-to-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45148","title":{"rendered":"Amid Blackouts and Food Shortages, Pence Unveils New Sanctions Targeting Venzuelan Oil Exports to Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Amid Blackouts and Food Shortages, Pence Unveils New Sanctions Targeting Venzuelan Oil Exports to Cuba<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Peace advocacy group CodePink says, “Reminder: sanctions are an act of war. #HandsOffVenezuela.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Venezuelans<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Residents carry water that they had to obtain from a natural source from the hill El Avila after the water supply was suspended following a nationwide blackout occurred March 10, 2019 in Caracas, Venezuela. (Photo: Edilzon Gamez\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite Venezuela’s worsening humanitarian crisis fueled by political unrest and economic sanctions, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence announced new sanctions targeting the government and companies that transport oil to Cuba as part of the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to oust Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recognizing that “oil is the lifeblood” of the Venezuelan government, Pence said<\/a> in Houston on Friday that the United States is sanctioning 34 vessels owned or operated by Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA)\u2014the state-run oil company\u2014and two international businesses and a vessel that have recently shipped crude oil to Cuba, a key ally<\/a> of Maduro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Cuba is a major importer of crude oil from Venezuela,” the U.S. Treasury Department noted in a statement<\/a> Friday, “and in return, sends assistance to Venezuela in the form of political advisers, intelligence and military officials, and medical professionals, all of whom are used to ensure Maduro’s hold on power.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodr\u00edguez immediately spoke out against the sanctions. “I strongly reject new measures of economic piracy adopted by Washington to damage #Venezuela and steal its resources,” he tweeted<\/a> in Spanish on Friday. “They will fail.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“These measures are an act of extraterritoriality, interference, and imperial arrogance,” Cuban President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel Berm\u00fadez added on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amid Blackouts and Food Shortages, Pence Unveils New Sanctions Targeting Venzuelan Oil Exports to Cuba Peace advocacy group CodePink says, “Reminder: sanctions are an act of war. #HandsOffVenezuela.” Residents carry water that they had to obtain from a natural source from the hill El Avila after the water supply was suspended following a nationwide blackout […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[79,7669,1983,1997,19779,827,851,862],"class_list":["post-45148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-blackouts","tag-common-dreams","tag-cuba","tag-economic-sanctions","tag-jessica-corbett","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45149,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45148\/revisions\/45149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}