Punishing Civilians: U.S. Sanctions on Venezuela

Mathematical modeling to study the impact of immigration on the dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study for Venezuela

“…Several Latin American countries, including Brazil, have suffered from the high prevalence of obesity ( Goodman et al, 2020 ). In contrast, Venezuela is a particularly salient case as it is currently undergoing an economic and socio-political crisis that has led to widespread food shortages and malnutrition ( Goodman et al, 2020 , Doocy et al, 2019b , Page et al, 2019 , Rodríguez, 2019 , Weisbrot and Sachs, 2019 ). However, there are other important factors, such as gasoline shortage, which drastically reduces the transportation within the country ( Pietrosemoli and Rodríguez-Monroy, 2019 ).…”

A People’s Green New Deal: Obstacles and Prospects

“…3 Politically, the United States has slowly and only relatively declined from its absolute political and economic predominance within the worldsystem. It is critical to separate such a diagnosis from discourses of the US "declining empire," which understate the capacity of US power to de-develop Third World nation-states through asphyxiation (Ameli, 2020;Weisbrot & Sachs, 2019) and proxy war (Capasso, 2020;Higgins, 2018). The nuclear backstop and enduring dollar seigniorage (Hudson, 2003) testify to the endurance of the US imperialism and the value flows on which imperialism is based and safeguards.…”

Cultural labor and the defetishization of environments: connecting ethnographies of tourism in Venezuela and Chile

“…During this period, the Chilean government became an active promoter of tourism as an engine of economic development in the country, through various schemes (de la Maza 2018: 1-3). I focus my analysis in these scenarios of growth, though the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have obviously altered those trends both in Chile and Venezuela, in the latter case intensifying the protracted economic recession that strikes the country since 2015 and US-led sanctions on the country severely aggravate (Weisbrot and Sachs 2019). In 2019, well before the pandemic took off, the main association of tourist service providers in Bolívar state was already reporting a drop of 80% in visitors to Gran Sabana during the previous year (Briceño and Josette, 2019), in addition to growing precariousness for tourist operators (ranging from difficulties in accessing to fuel to the general deterioration of infrastructure).…”