{"id":51360,"date":"2014-12-22T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=51360"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:27:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:27:08","slug":"venezuelas-maduro-us-knows-where-it-can-stick-its-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/12\/venezuelas-maduro-us-knows-where-it-can-stick-its-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela’s Maduro: ‘US Knows Where It Can Stick Up Its Sanctions’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking at rally to commemorate constitution anniversary, Maduro also calls for investigation of ‘imperialist nations which have bombed Libya, Iraq and Syria’<\/em><\/p>\n

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Nicolas Maduro in 2013. (Photo: Luis Astudillo C. \/ Andes)<\/p><\/div>\n

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro denounced<\/a> U.S. sanctions on Monday [15 Dec 2014] and told a crowd of supporters in Caracas that the recent police killings in New York and Ferguson were a sign of an “imperialist police state.”<\/p>\n

Sparking Maduro’s comments at the rally to mark the 15th anniversary of Venezuela’s constitution was legislation passed by Congress last week<\/a> to impose new sanctions against the Latin American nation. The measure would<\/a> freeze the assets of and ban visas for “persons responsible for violations of human rights of antigovernment protesters in Venezuela, to strengthen civil society in Venezuela, and for other purposes.”<\/p>\n

Speaking in front of a banner that read “Respect Venezuela,” the leftist leader said that “insolent Yankees[…] already know where they need to put the sanctions.”<\/p>\n

Maduro’s comments echo those he made over the weekend, when he called<\/a> the sanctions “stupid” and said they would “strengthen our fighters’ resistance.”<\/p>\n

During his address, Maduro also called on his country to form a committee to investigate “imperialist nations which have bombed Libya, Iraq and Syria and that have destroyed our brothers.”<\/p>\n

He added that the recent killings of Michael Brown, whom he mistakenly referred to as Chris Brown, and Eric Garner are<\/a> “the major image of what is an oppression of an imperialist police state against its own people.”<\/p>\n

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