sanctions
In a move applauded by Rep. Jared Moskowitz, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Lebanon-based Green Without Borders (GWB) and its leader, Zuhair Subhi Nahla. GWB, pretending to be an environmental activist organization, has been linked with supporting Hezbollah along the "Blue Line" between Lebanon and Israel for […]
Washington, D.C.- Florida Representative Maria-Elvira Salazar is accusing the Biden administration of facilitating the violation of American sanctions on Cuba. Representative Salazar took to social media to denounce President Biden’s “flirtatious” behavior with Cuban Communist business interests. “The Biden administration flirts with the Castro regime when it permits corrupt businessmen from Miami to deal with […]
Venezuelan Dictator Nicolas Maduro has been busy strengthening ties with U.S. adversary nations. After attending Turkey´s Tayyip Erdogan’s presidential inauguration, he visited Saudi Arabia, which recently signed cooperation agreements with Iran —brokered by China— and Syria— to strengthen bilateral political, diplomatic, and energy relations. Meanwhile, in this hemisphere, Maduro hosted Russia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei […]
This week, fresh from meeting his “dear friend” Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, China’s leader, Xi Jinping’s objective is clear: position himself and China as counterweights to U.S. world dominance. One way to do it, playing an instrumental role in helping U.S. adversaries skirt Western sanctions. Case-in-point: Russia and Venezuela. As sanctions have cut off Russia […]
Republicans in Congress continue to push for action regarding Cuba. Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), a long-time crusader for Cuban freedom, reintroduces the DEMOCRACIA Act in the Senate, while Rep. Byron Donalds, Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart introduce its House counterpart. In his press release, Sen. Scott calls Cuba "the root of instability […]
In a recent blog post, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has called for more pressure against the Nicaraguan totalitarian regime led by Dictator Daniel Ortega and his spouse Rosario Murillo. The call for more pressure comes after repeated instances of human rights violations such as unreasonable searches and seizures, silencing and intimidating political opponents, and most […]
After the U.S. imposed more sanctions on elements within the Communist Cuban regime, the Chinese government came out in full support of their ally in the Western Hemisphere, calling for the Biden administration to end the long-standing and decades-long sanctions put in place by past American administrations. "China firmly opposes any move to arbitrarily impose […]
One of the most, if not the most, clear and present threats to U.S. national security in the Western Hemisphere is the growing influence and support from the Islamic State of Iran to the dictatorial regime of Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela.
America is playing whack-a-mole with Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro. After losing access to most of its oil revenue, the tyrant’s regime is overcoming U.S. sanctions
Venezuelan Dictator, strongman, and narco-trafficker, Nicholas Maduro and his reign of terror could be over soon as the COVID-19 virus and the strong economic sanctions his country has been saddled with could prove to be a knock out combination. Oh, and Trump did this, not Obama
The Trump administration has levied crippling economic sanctions, including crude oil restrictions, against the Maduro regime, including specific sanctions against the dictator himself and his family.
Florida Senator Rick Scott (R) has introduced a bill that calls for sanctions against, condemns NATO ally Turkey, for their continued and questionable dealings with Putin’s Russia.
