Meet the DC think tanks impoverishing masses of Latin Americans - The Grayzone

Meet the DC think tanks impoverishing masses of Latin Americans - The Grayzone

These top Washington think tanks are lobbying lawmakers for sadistic sanctions on some of the hemisphere’s poorest countries while raking in millions from corporations and arms makers. Sanctions are a form of hybrid warfare that harms or even kills the target populations at little cost to the country imposing them. In Latin America alone, US sanctions (correctly known as “unilateral coercive measures”) have killed at least 100,000 Venezuelans. T…

To understand why the alliance pact China is actually proposing to the countries of the South and to those like Europe who are hit by Trump's tariffs is not an alternative to development but the choice between survival or death, we must already measure what the real policy of the United States is about the poorest countries in the southern hemisphere. If Latin America and many other countries in the South have welcomed the end of UNSAID it is th…