Buenos Aires (Sputnik) – The EU nations and the United States have reportedly refused Venezuela’s request to unfreeze its assets, so that the sanctions-hit country could purchase a coronavirus vaccine, President Nicolas Maduro has claimed.
The Venezuelan president noted that his request to use the nation’s foreign assets as a means of purchasing COVID-19 vaccines was denied by the governments of Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom and the US.
“The governments of Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom and the US and their financial institutions have frozen and blocked funds for access to a vaccine. We demanded via the WTO [World Trade Organization] that they provide us with access to funds, and we were refused,” Maduro told a meeting on health care on Sunday.
He added that the nation’s vice president, Delcy Rodriguez, held talks with the foreign ministers of Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom and the US, but they refused the request.
As part of attempts to oust Maduro, the US and other Western countries endorsing opposition leader Juan Guaido slapped sanctions on Venezuela and froze its assets abroad.
Venezuela, like Cuba is now squarely on “America’s Punish List”
…..so afraid of socialism, the USA is experiencing nothing but paranoia & unbridled fear of any real peoples movement!
Dog eat Dog Economics is thriving in Yankeeville!
We have just witnessed the outrage in Washington when certain states attempted to mettle in the affairs of other states-guess that same logic does not apply to other nations? And how proudly we taunt the fact that we allegedly are a Judeo-Christian nation-is this not what Jesus Himself would do?