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By Richard Steigmann-Gall, Associate Professor of history at Kent State University, USA The overriding temptation on the left is to frame Trump’s criminality as another instance of Uncle Sam meddling in Latin American affairs. Big Continuity, which implicates all our imperial presidents since McKinley. I don’t think this fits Trump’s pattern, however. And this does […]
This morning, the third of January, the news arrived not through the slow deliberation of the courts, but through the sharp, sudden fact of American special forces – Nicolás Maduro, a man who had long inhabited the Miraflores Palace as though it were a fortress against time itself, was taken by US forces, on the […]
Venezuela: an update Things are getting ugly between Brazil and Venezuela. The Bolivarian National Guard expanded their security on Saturday morning and all the access has being closed down, according to the Brazilian Army. In addition to the military post between Pacaraima and Santa Elena do Uairen, Venezuelan soldiers have been mobilised around large parts […]