… in order to maintain stability in Venezuela, which is in everyone's interest across the world, you need to pull back the sanctions which achieve the opposite of their intended effect. They [sanctions] did dislodge the political leadership. That was by force. It just hurt the people there. It hurt the country that issued the sanctions, the United States, it weakened the dollar. And so in order to go forward on terms that help everybody very, Venezuela needs to be allowed to reenter international markets on equal terms without sanctions. (02:44–14:35)
CLAIM
Asserts that sanctions failed to achieve their intended political goals and harmed Venezuelan citizens.
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