Morning Star :: British politicians back Maduro’s Venezuela

Morning Star :: British politicians back Maduro’s Venezuela: The seriousness of this situation — and the corresponding need for us to step up our solidarity campaigning — can be shown in the number of analyses in Venezuela arguing that the US designation may herald a military intervention.

“History has shown that declarations like this tend to precede military inventions,” Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez has said, warning that recent sanctions imposed on Venezuelan officials by the US administration could be the prelude to an “economic blockade ... as our brother people [in] Cuba have suffered for over 50 years.”

Rodriguez added that “the power whereby the US State Department and the Treasury impose sanctions on whoever is very broad,” and that “hegemonic interests are attempting to take control of the world’s largest petroleum reserves.”