May 9, 2024

How Venezuela’s dictatorship is weaponizing the US border crisis

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The Venezuelan dictatorship, with 25 years in power, continues to bet on increasing forced migration as a useful strategy for blackmailing President Biden’s administration against reimposing sanctions against the regime. Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez has threatened to immediately revoke migrant repatriation flights and review any existing bilateral cooperation mechanism in the even that sanctions return. The threat comes from a regime that took the most prosperous economy in Latin America and forced more than 7 million of its own citizens to emigrate in abject poverty and desperation. By Arturo McFields. Full Text-> TheHill

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