Renowned filmmaker Oliver Stone accuses the United States of turning the new coronavirus into a weapon against Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, countries on which the US has imposed coercive and unilateral measures, reports an article published by the New York Daily News quoted by Hispan TV.

In that article, US film director Oliver Stone and Daniel Kovalik, professor of international human rights at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania School of Law, call for an end to the “terribly cruel sanctions” of the Trump administration against the referred countries in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.

As for Venezuela, Stone and Kovalik repudiate that the sanctions hinder the acquisition of medicines and supplies necessary to combat the virus, and even when Trump is intensifying them, under the fallacy that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is trafficking drugs.

“But the United States Government’s own data deny this claim. Even so, the suffering that the increase of Trump’s sanctions will cause will be very real”, they warn.
 
They also regret that Washington has acted in this way while many other countries represent international solidarity and show the humanity that the world needs at the moment.

In this regard, they recall that Cuba allowed a cruise ship to dock in one of its ports, when other countries refused to accept it, although some on board tested positive for COVID-19. “This ship was full of mostly British citizens who were allowed to fly home from Cuba. Furthermore, Cuba, together with China, is sending doctors and supplies to various countries around the world to help them fight the pandemic, “they highlight.