Some 40,000 Venezuelans have died in less than two years as a result of illegal US sanctions that were designed to effect regime change, a study co-authored by world renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs revealed on Thursday
WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 25th April, 2019) Some 40,000 Venezuelans have died in less than two years as a result of illegal US sanctions that were designed to effect regime change, a study co-authored by world renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs revealed on Thursday."American sanctions are deliberately aiming to wreck Venezuela's economy and thereby lead to regime change. It's a fruitless, heartless, illegal, and failed policy, causing grave harm to the Venezuelan people... Among the results of broad economic sanctions implemented by the Trump administration since August 2017 [are] an estimated more than 40,000 deaths," the study, issued by the US-based Center for Economic and Policy Research, said.
Sachs is the Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and a former special adviser to the UN Secretary-General. The Economist ranked Sachs as among the three most influential living economists and Time magazine twice named him as one of the 100 most influential world leaders.
