On May 11, he blasted a group of 21 US House Democrats for asking President Joe Biden to lift sanctions against Cuba and Venezuela, rightly pointing out that these measures are the main factors behind the countries’ widespread suffering which forces people to flee these US-inflicted catastrophes. Second, leave it to warmongering politicians like Menéndez to continue pushing the narrative that US inhumane sanctions policies are not behind the worsened economic conditions in Cuba and Venezuela and that these measures actually defend “democratic values.” A new study published by the Washington-based Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) found that 30 out of 32 specialized academic papers estimated that sanctions induced poverty, inequality, and health and migration crises in…