top | item 23418832 (no title) bobmcbobface | 5 years ago What utter nonsense. discuss order hn newest jialutu|5 years ago Which part? The sanctions part or the hegemon part? Here is a list of US sanctions:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_sanctionsI love this part specifically: "Reasons cited for sanctions includes Venezuela's poor human rights record", pretty much for all of them.And then let's look at US's involvements in Latin America:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...Funnily enough, the CIA overthrew Iran's democratically elected government in 1953, only to sanction them when they are not willing to be US's pawns anymore.https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthr...
jialutu|5 years ago Which part? The sanctions part or the hegemon part? Here is a list of US sanctions:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_sanctionsI love this part specifically: "Reasons cited for sanctions includes Venezuela's poor human rights record", pretty much for all of them.And then let's look at US's involvements in Latin America:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...Funnily enough, the CIA overthrew Iran's democratically elected government in 1953, only to sanction them when they are not willing to be US's pawns anymore.https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthr...
jialutu|5 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_sanctions
I love this part specifically: "Reasons cited for sanctions includes Venezuela's poor human rights record", pretty much for all of them.
And then let's look at US's involvements in Latin America:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
Funnily enough, the CIA overthrew Iran's democratically elected government in 1953, only to sanction them when they are not willing to be US's pawns anymore.
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthr...