amy: vijay prashad, your response?> the interesting thing is this unitary in a that the united states is, think is going to be about $20 million. mainly $50 million at most. meanwhile, the united statates d ththe bank of england have plundered this country of billions of dollars, which it could have used in the open market to have bought the goods that it needs. imports to venezuela contracted deeply and partly because of this plunder. we take our eyes off this ball quite a bit. people have not effectively reported what happened, for instance, to the libyan sovereign fund will stop the investment agency. billions of dollars in libya were held in banks outside the country as part of libya sovereign fund. after the invasion of that country, that money essentially just vanished. there has been no audit o of it. there has been no conversation even about libya's sovereign fund. in the case of venezuela, there's a kind of open plunder happening. $1.2 billion of gold, bank of england says you have no access to it. the money t