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Biden’s Venezuela Policy: Continuity with Trump

Greg Wilpert and Steve Ellner discuss the Biden administration's Venezuela policy.

By Greg Wilpert - theAnalysis.news
Apr 5th 2021 at 5.11pm

In Venezuela, brutal sanctions and the recognition of a phony president continue to wreak havoc. Biden has not implemented any real change to US policy towards the country. Historians Steve Ellner and Greg Wilpert discuss the reasons why.

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