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 D

The Trump administration has been doing what centuries of US ruling elites have carefully avoided by dropping pretences of being a colonial power. In a five-minute video posted by the State Department, narrated by U.S. Ambassador to Panama Kevin Marino Cabrera, the U.S. government openly celebrates its “dominance” over