Trump Targets Latin America, Media Forgets Monroe Doctrine
When international outlets like Deutsche Welle suddenly fret over hypothetical US aggression in Latin America, one might wonder where this concern has been for the last 200 years. The United States has had a long, intimate, and often brutal history of 'targeting' these nations – with or without a Trump in the White House. From US-backed coups in Chile (1973) and Guatemala (1954) to decades of
economic strangulation against Cuba (since 1960), 'targets' aren't new; the names just change. This isn't about one president's temperament; it's about deeply entrenched imperial policy under the guise of anachronistic doctrines. To act as if aggression towards Latin American nations is a novel idea conjured by one man, rather than a consistent feature of US foreign policy, is a failure to engage
with basic history. The question isn't ' if ' they'll be targets, but rather ' when ' and ' under what pretext ' will the 'free press' notice again?