To whom and why does the United States impose sanctions?

The U.S. most frequent excuse in order to impose sanctions on

countries is Washington’s accusations and “concerns” about alleged

violations of human rights, absence of democracy and terrorism.

The policy of imposing unilateral coercive measures, known as

“sanctions” – devised during the First World War – violates the Charter

of the United Nations, and conceals an aggressive model of

intervention. It involves the use of coercion and pressure on the

economies of those countries that Washington deems as “foes.” It is

the repetition of the old hegemonic ambition, the new big stick of

the North American diplomacy, in a context in which the U.S. does

not control the world at its will. Beyond the rhetoric that justifies it in

the name of “democracy”, sanctions are an instrument of war,

designed to make people suffer in order to bend sovereign States.

Learn here about some of the countries affected by this perverse

strategy