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The Sanctions Age
The Sanctions Age is a podcast that explores how sanctions are changing the world.
Twenty years ago, the U.S. Department of Treasury had imposed sanctions on fewer than 1,000 companies and individuals. Today, more than 10,000 entities have been targeted.
Leaders around the world are imposing sanctions in response to wars, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, human rights violations, and technological competition. As a result, a growing list of countries are targeted by sanctions, export controls, and investment restrictions, including China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and Syria.
The Sanctions Age invites the people who understand sanctions best—economists, historians, lawyers, policymakers, and journalists—to explain their use and significance. Understanding sanctions is the key to understanding politics and economics today.
We are living in The Sanctions Age.
The Sanctions Age
Why Trump Now Controls Venezuela's Future
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Francisco Rodríguez on the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.
On January 3 of this year, American special forces captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and extricated him to the United States. But the operation did not oust the Venezuelan regime. Instead, in the subsequent days, the Trump administration announced its intention to work with Maduro’s deputy, Delcy Rodriguez. President Trump took effective control of Venezuela’s oil industry and Rodriguez obliged, securing some relief from the crushing sanctions that President Trump had imposed during his first term. In this episode we discuss the peculiar arrangement taking shape in Venezuela and examine whether sanctions did help bring about regime change in the country.
Francisco Rodríguez is a Venezuelan economist, who is a Senior Research fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and a Faculty Affiliate at the Josef Korbel School at the University of Denver. He is also a member of the Bologna Initiative for Sanctions Relief. Francisco was on the podcast last year to speak about his research on the humanitarian harms of sanctions.
The Sanctions Age is hosted by Esfandyar Batmanghelidj and Josefine Petrick.
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