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US Declares Venezuela National Security Risk; Europe’s Hopeful Left Can Learn from Latin America
U.S. declares Venezuela a national security threat, sanctions top officials. [nothing mentioned in the announcement is a security threat to the US.] Barack Obama issued and signed the executive order, which senior administration officials said did not target Venezuela’s energy sector or broader economy. But the move stokes tensions between Washington and Caracas just as U.S. relations with Cuba, a longtime U.S. foe in Latin America and key ally to Venezuela, are set to be normalized [guess why].
What Europe’s Hopeful Left Can Learn From Latin America. After years of austerity and economic turmoil, mass movements based on hope are finally taking root in Europe – and not just on the streets. As it goes in Europe today, so it went in Latin America in the 1990s.
