It's always the poor who suffer from sanctions »
Posted By _kam0_ 3 months, 1 week ago in NewsSanctions are pretty blunt instruments, rarely effective and having many unintended effects, some of them wickedly cruel. We should ponder that as Britain, the U.S. and the EU muse on the next stage in isolating Robert Mugabe, or indeed Iran. Borders are always porous; dictatorships can insulate themselves from hardship; the poor can't.
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