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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on August 03, 2017, 11:38:32 AM

Title: Venezuela
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 03, 2017, 11:38:32 AM
While a football club pays £400m for a player, in part as a sign that one nation being isolated from some other dictatorships can still do business, a flawed democracy is rolled inexorably to chaos. I agree with Chris Williamson that sanctions seem the wrong response


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40810341


And while I am less sanguine about the intentions behind almost any govt than Craig Murray is here, he makes powerful points that this is not about principle


https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2017/08/of-venezuela-and-hypocrisy/