{"id":414456,"date":"2026-01-18T07:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/414456\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T07:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:01:15","slug":"two-centuries-of-us-interference-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/414456\/","title":{"rendered":"Two centuries of US interference in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--lf \">In the long history of direct and indirect US interventions in Latin America \u2013 historians have counted at least 70 \u2013 the current president Donald Trump has accomplished something unprecedented. For the first time, the United States launched a military attack against a South American state, Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--lf \">In the past, invasions had targeted the US&#8217;s immediate neighborhood: Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean; the most recent of which was in Panama in 1989, marked by the abduction of the ruling general, Manuel Noriega. A few troops had also been sent in the 19th century to more distant countries, mainly to protect US citizens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--lf \">This time, with the January 3 abduction of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, &#8220;a threshold has been crossed, and the consequences are unpredictable,&#8221; said Jorge Heine, former Chilean minister and diplomat, in <a href=\"https:\/\/responsiblestatecraft.org\/trump-venezuela-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Nouvelle fen\u00eatre\">Responsible Statecraft, a publication of the Quincy Institute<\/a>, a think tank based in Washington. According to him, the official justification for the operation \u2013 that Venezuela was exporting large quantities of fentanyl to the US \u2013 was reminiscent of the pretext of &#8220;the non-existent weapons of mass destruction&#8221; during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>                            <img viewbox=\"0 0 664 443\"   width=\"664\" height=\"443\" alt=\"Panamanian General Manuel Noriega, on January 4, 1990, in a photo provided by the US federal prosecutor's office. Charged with cocaine trafficking and money laundering, he had been captured by the United States the previous year during the invasion of Panama.\"\/>    Panamanian General Manuel Noriega, on January 4, 1990, in a photo provided by the US federal prosecutor&#8217;s office. Charged with cocaine trafficking and money laundering, he had been captured by the United States the previous year during the invasion of Panama.  STEVEN AUMAND\/US ATTORNEY&#8217;S OFFICE\/AFP               <\/p>\n<p class=\"reading-mode-only \">You have 93.65% of this article left to read. The rest is for subscribers only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the long history of direct and indirect US interventions in Latin America \u2013 historians have counted at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-414456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}