The U.S. State Department Is Celebrating Lies About the Monroe Doctrine - World BEYOND War
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The U.S. State Department Is Celebrating Lies About the Monroe Doctrine - World BEYOND War
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, August 17, 2026 The U.S. State Department has shamelessly published a video celebrating “imperialism” and “dominance” of the Western hemisphere under the banner of the Monroe Doctrine, complete with falsified history and grotesque omissions. In 2013, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had declared the unpopular and blatantly imperialist Monroe Doctrine dead, even while acting as if it were his daily guide to a…
A new apology of the "Monroe doctrine." On 11 August, the U.S. State Department broadcast a video drawing a direct line between James Monroe's message to Congress in 1823 (calling Europeans to withdraw from Latin America) and the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro last January, on the orders of Donald Trump. Trump would thus be the latest guardian of a doctrine that had long taken care to present itself as a protector, rather than as a mistress of the…
The United States has put its eye, its wallet and its cannons in Latin America, a territory that it has always considered as its backyard. Nine months after approving the National Security Strategy, Donald Trump makes a box in his protectorate of Venezuela while marking with a cross the countries in which he joins allies that replicate the script of reactionary populism. Washington’s interference in the region unfolds without subtleties and carr…
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