You would likely expect leaders of Students for Liberty to oppose the imposing of sanctions on Venezuela. After all, the organization claims at its website that it is the "largest libertarian student organization in the world" and libertarians are known for their support for a noninterventionist foreign policy. That noninterventionist approach includes opposition to imposing sanctions on other countries to bring about "regime change" or to force changes in government policies in those countries.

Well, the self-proclaimed libertarian organization has a surprise for you.

On Friday, Students for Liberty promoted via its email list a Foreign Policy article from June written by the organization's Chief Executive Officer Wolf von Laer and Director of Alumni Programs Jorge Jraissati. The focus of that article, the email stated, is "the strategy that the international community should adopt in order to help Venezuela become a prosperous and democratic country once again."

And what strategy do these Students for Liberty leaders say the United States government should adopt in order to alter the internal political situation in Venezuela? Sanctions. Yes, sanctions that libertarians commonly oppose as a tool for manipulating other governments. Libertarians also tend to understand that sanctions are acts of war. This nature of sanctions has often been highlighted by libertarian communicator Ron Paul, including when as a US House of Representatives member he spoke on the House floor in August of 2012 against sanctions on Iran.