Trump's Venezuela Strategy Highlights Long, Mixed History of U.S. Intervention in Americas

President Trump's pressure campaign against Venezuela is the latest chapter in a long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the Caribbean that traces its roots to the 1823 Monroe Doctrine.

Those interventions over two centuries have produced a mixture of successes and failures rather than a consistent record of achievement.

Key Topics

World, Venezuela, Latin America, Monroe Doctrine, U.s. Foreign Policy, Interventionism