nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/ce8a55e4eca835e8 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250204s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/ce8a55e4eca835e8 doi eng 342 23 Atiles, Jose Author aut Law, Coercion, and State Crime - US’s Economic Sanctions in Latin America and the Caribbean Atiles, Jose Verfassungsblog 2025-02-04 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On January 26, 2025, President Donald J. Trump announced via Truth Social retaliatory measures against Colombia following President Gustavo Petro’s refusal to allow US deportation flights. These included a 25% emergency tariff on Colombian imports, escalating to 50% within a week. The Trump administration’s use of unilateral economic sanctions on countries opposing US policies is part of a long history of imperial interventions. Sanctions are central to the colonial arsenal of economic statecraft, disproportionately targeting the Global South. I argue that sanctions should be recognized as a form of state crime due to their socially injurious effects. CC BY-SA 4.0 Cuba Latin America Sanctions State Crime tariffs United States USA Venezuela Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/us-sanctions-state-crime/ raw object