Trump administration officials profess to be untroubled by the prospect of being blamed for creating Latin America’s first modern famine.
Judging from the administration’s indifference to helping create the world’s worst famine in Yemen, they probably are untroubled by this. Inflicting pain on tens of millions of people in pursuit of reckless and unrealistic goals has become a recurring theme in Trump administration foreign policy. Because most of the misery remains invisible here in the U.S., the administration assumes that they can get away with making things much worse for entire nations. “Maximum pressure” has failed in Venezuela, and that failure is coming at a terrible cost to the civilian population.