Trump Gets Real About US Dominance of Latin America

In 1914, addressing the University of Buenos Aires, President Theodore Roosevelt called the Monroe Doctrine a policy “which the United States promulgated, partly as a matter of policy in its own interest, partly as a matter of policy in the interest of all the republics of the New World.” Earlier this week, the State Department posted a five-minute to its official account on Twitter tracing a straight line from James Monroe’s 1823 message to Congress through the Spanish-American War, the…