SURES, a Venezuelan (authentic) human rights organization, and Alfred de Zayas of the UN Human Rights Council have issued reports on the human rights effect of the sanctions:
Joe Emersberger has recently written about some of the cost of the sanctions:
Trump’s Economic Sanctions Have Cost Venezuela About $6 billion in one year
Video of Steve Ellner’s talk in Albany on Threats to Venezuela
Steve Ellner schedule of public speaking events:
Monday, October 22, Vancouver Island University
Thursday, Oct. 25: 12:00 noon SALA lunch
Thursday, October 25, Consumnes River College, Sacramento, California
Friday, Oct, 26 7:30 pm Task Force on Americas event
Sunday, Oct. 28, 10:30 am, Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland
Sunday, Oct. 28, 4:00 pm Rossmoor w/potluck dinner
Wednesday, Oct 31, 3 pm University of California, Berkeley
Friday Nov 2 2pm Willamette Room, Werner University Center, Western Oregon University, Monmouth
Friday Nov 2 7 pm Corvallis, Oregon
Sunday Nov 4 dinner with National Lawyers Guild Convention members
Monday Nov 5, 7:30 pm Olympia Washington
Tuesday Nov 6, 1pm Evergreen College
Saturday, November 10, Minneapolis
Monday, Nov. 12, 7 pm, Evanston Public Library
Tuesday, Nov. 13, 12:30 pm Purdue University NW (Hammond, IN)
Wednesday, Nov. 14, 6:30 pm Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin
Thursday, Nov. 15, 6 pm University of Missouri, Kansas City
Friday November 16 University of Missouri, Kansas City, Latinx and Latin American Studies Program
Saturday November 17 Progressive Democrats of America, California
Saturday, December 1, 1 pm University of Pittsburgh
Monday, December 3, 7 pm Columbus, Ohio – CWA local 4502 Union Hall, 620 E. Broad Street
Steve Ellner earned his Ph.D. in Latin American history at the University of New Mexico in 1980. Since 1977 he has taught economic history and political science at the Universidad de Oriente in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela and for a ten year period taught in the graduate school of law and political science of the Universidad Central de Venezuela.
Among his book publications are:
Rethinking Venezuelan Politics: Class, Polarization and the Chávez Phenomenon. (2008);
Venezuelan Politics in the Chávez Era: Class, Polarization and Conflict (co-editor, 2003);
Venezuela: Hugo Chávez and the Decline of an “Exceptional” Democracy” (co-editor, 2007);
The Pink Tide Experiences: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings in Twenty-First Century (2019)
Chicago ALBA Solidarity 
We’re interested in hosting Steveve’s tour.Binghamton NY.
2 1/2 hours from Albany.
Please let us know as soon as possible.
Chair Broome Tioga Green Party
Solidarity!
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