Authors:
Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri and José Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net
Hugo Chavez has always been a harsh critic of the United States' trade sanctions against Cuba. Chavez says that this embargo violates the people's right to self-determination, that a foreign pressure like this is an unforgivable intrusion, that has not changed nothing in many years, and that is an inhuman policy because the bigger loser is the Cuban people.
Ironically, every time Chavez has differences with the government of Colombia, the first thing the current president of Venezuela does is threatening economic sanctions, but if the disagreement persists, Chavez breaks off diplomatic relations and restricts bilateral trade, publicly leaving the promise that if the differences get worse, he would suspend trading altogether, or would take more severe actions against Colombia.
Therefore, for Chavez, economic war tactics are an atrocity when applied against the Cuban dictatorship, but become an act of justice when the Chavista government uses them against the Colombian people.
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