from Sputnik News:
The United States has felt no compunction about slapping unilateral sanctions with impunity for decades, with weaponized penalties a tried and tested tool favored over official diplomacy to force countries to do Washington’s bidding.
The US has seized Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s airplane in the Dominican Republic. Washington claims that the plane was purchased in violation of American sanctions.
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The incident, decried by Venezuela as modern-day “piracy,” feeds into Washington’s lengthy track-record of using sanctions and restrictions to bring sovereign countries “to heel.” Here are just a few cases in point.
Magnitsky Act
Claiming it was policing rule of law, the US Congress adopted the notorious Magnitsky Act in 2012 following the death of Russian tax adviser Sergei Magnitsky in a Moscow prison in 2009. Magnistky, who worked for the British-based Hermitage Capital investment fund, had been arrested on charges of tax evasion.
Russia dismissed “far-fetched” allegations on the circumstances of Magnitsky’s death and slammed the legislation as “unacceptable meddling” in its domestic affairs. The Magnitsky List first targeted Russian officials, but the act was later expanded to punished targeted individuals anywhere in the world with visa and financial sanctions.
