US EditionAmerica's New Doctrine of Empire
US actions reflect a historic pattern of intervention to maintain dominance and control over Latin American resources, with recent military moves escalating pressure on Venezuela.
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America's new doctrine of Empire
When I was a child, I once, after being told off by my mother, conspicuously gathered together some treasured toys into a tea towel, and wrapped them onto the end of a broom handle, as I had seen tramps do in cartoons. Declaring that I was running away, I made it as far as the garden gate, where I lingered for some long minutes, waiting for my mother to rush out and usher me back into the warm security of home, torn between the certainty that sh…
The President and the Monroe Doctrine
North and South TrumpistanThe latest view from the kaleidoscope through which to observe US President Donald Trump’s worldview and foreign policy appears to show a focus wholly on the western hemisphere, leaving less focus on China as well as Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. The whole hemisphere is regarded as a US bastion which needs to be protected from outsiders.The US will dominate the Americas while China controls East Asia and Europe, …
The Trump Corollary: US Imperialism in Latin America From the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro
In recent months, the Trump administration has escalated a decades-long campaign against the Venezuelan government and people. The renewed, intensifying threats of regime change, justified through false or inflated claims that Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s president, is directing narco-terrorism against the United States, serve as a convenient pretext for deeper and more direct intervention. A recent wave of extrajudicial killings at sea, the dire…
Leaving aside the possible, but not yet certain, military intervention in Venezuela, the United States has fundamentally transformed its relationship with Latin America. From one defined by cooperation and multilateralism, to a coercive and unilateral relationship. The post Trump and the new doctrine of the club for Latin America first appeared on SinEmbargo MX.Read the full text in sinembargo.mx
By Carlos Fazio, Mate Amargo, Abstract Latinoamericnao, December 11, 2025. James Monroe is present and his “doctrine” has been resurrected in the new National Security Strategy of the United States, which explicitly states that this 19th century conceptual framework will be applied to the American subcontinent in the 21st century, including with a “Corolario [...] The entry of the United States. The pirate Trump, his ‘corollary’ to the Monroe 2.…
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