To digress, President Nicolas Maduro has called for a Constituent Assembly to revise Venezuela's 1999 constitution in order to deal with the current economic crisis caused by plummeting oil prices, U.S. sanctions and the chaos in the street. Venezuela's oil wealth provides approximately 95% of Venezuela's revenues to pay for imports. Low oil prices are hurting every oil producer. For Venezuela it has resulted in shortages of imports, such as food, medicine and other consumer items. The shortages have caused hyperinflation and devaluation of their currency, but Venezuela is not broke. They are still providing public services, medical care and food to the poor. They are current on their foreign debts.
Maduro's opposition has labeled the planned Constituent Assembly a "coup" by Maduro. The matter was taken to Venezuela's Supreme Court, which ruled in Maduro's favor. Change happens and was foreseen by the 1999 constitution. A Constituent Assembly to revise the constriction is provided for in the 1999 constitution, which was democratically approved by the people.
The Supreme Court decision resulted in the disbanding of the current National Assembly until a new constitution is formed, and new elections are held. Maduro says that a revised constitution is necessary, for one thing to deal with the current crisis. For another thing, Maduro says that the poor have been badly underrepresented in the National Assembly, and that the wealth have been over represented. Maduro's plan is controversial, but it is legal. It is democracy in action, and an improvement of the democratic representation of the people. The rich are waging class warfare.
After the Supreme Court ruled in Maduro favor, the Trump Empire which thinks it has the right to meddle in other's Supreme Court decisions, reacted by imposing more sanctions. He even singling out individual Supreme Court judges for personal sanctions. That is like Putin imposing sanctions on U.S. Supreme Court judges for the ruling on an upcoming case on partisan gerrymandering---the corporate Fake News would go nutz, and rightly so.
Economic sanctions are intended to make the economy scream, as President Richard Nixon put it when he ordered the CIA to "make the economy scream" in Chile to "prevent democratically elected Salvador Allende from coming to power". The U.S. backed a coup d'etat that overthrow and assassinate Allende in one of the most shameful episodes in U.S. history. The U.S. backed coup brought about a 17 year military dictatorship in Chile, which was a blood-soaked reign of terror, torture, murder and disappearances by Generalissimo Augusto Pinochet. In 1998 Pinochet was convicted by Spain for crimes against humanity (See Britannica.com).
A screaming economy causing the people to suffer, as they did in Iraq resulting in half a million babies dying. Dead babies are "worth it" according to Clinton's Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, as she spoke about the priority of U.S. foreign policy objectives.
The Trump Empire has imposed more economic sanctions on Venezuela, he is trying to politically isolate Venezuela from other Latin American countries, and he is openly giving financial and political support to the disloyal opposition.
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