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New Study Estimates that Unilateral Sanctions Cause More than Half a Million Deaths a Year - Cubadebate

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A new study published in the British medical journal The Lancet Global Health reveals that unilateral economic sanctions cause around 564,000 excess deaths each year. The findings, made by economists Mark Weisbrot, Francisco Rodríguez and Silvio Rendón, show that this human cost is approximately equivalent to the total deaths caused by wars — including civilian casualties — and exceeds the annual number of combat deaths. The post New study estim…
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A new study published in the British medical journal The Lancet Global Health reveals that unilateral economic sanctions cause around 564,000 excess deaths each year. The findings, made by economists Mark Weisbrot, Francisco Rodríguez and Silvio Rendón, show that this human cost is approximately equivalent to the total deaths caused by wars — including civilian casualties — and exceeds the annual number of combat deaths. The post New study estim…

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Cubadebate broke the news in on Wednesday, October 8, 2025.
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