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"author_name": "Just Foreign Policy",
"author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/groups/just-foreign-policy",
"title": "Stop Blocking Disaster Recovery in Venezuela! ",
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"description": "Hours before two massive earthquakes leveled Venezuela, the Trump administration deported 146 Venezuelans, including children, and locked them in a hotel in La Guaira. The hotel collapsed. More than a hundred of them are missing or feared dead. Deported into an earthquake… then buried by the same government's sanctions. The numbers are staggering: more than 2,200 confirmed dead, tens of thousands still missing, and nearly one in three Venezuelans already needing humanitarian aid before the ground even shook… because for years, U.S. sanctions have deliberately choked off the food, medicine, and infrastructure that decide whether an earthquake becomes a mass grave. Right now, as rescue workers dig through rubble with their bare hands, banks are too terrified of U.S. fines to process payments for rescue equipment, medicine, or the workers pulling survivors out of the wreckage. Public pressure is already working… it forced the White House to issue a "general license," a four-month permission slip that expires in October. That admission proves they can lift sanctions any time they choose; they just need to feel enough heat to do it fully. When thousands of us demand it together, the White House can't pretend nobody's watching. Add your name and make them lift ALL sanctions… because every hour of delay is measured in lives.",
"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-blocking-disaster-recovery-in-venezuela"
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