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May 8, 2019

UN Rapporteur Slams U.S. For Using Sanctions to Precipitate Humanitarian Disasters
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This comes as a high-ranking United Nations official is openly
criticizing the United States for imposing unilateral sanctions on Iran
Cuba, and Venezuela that could lead to mass starvation.

UN Special Rapporteur Idriss Jazairy said, "Real concerns and serious
political differences between governments must never be resolved by
precipitating economic and humanitarian disasters, making ordinary
people pawns and hostages thereof." A recent report by the Center for
Economic and Policy Research and economist Jeffrey Sachs estimates
40,000 people may have died in Venezuela since 2017 because of U.S.
sanctions.


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