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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">From Monroe to Trump, Two Centuries of Imperial Interference</h1>
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<hr>By Carlos Aznárez. On December 23, 2025<div class="gmail-content"><div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><div id="gmail-wrapper2">
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<p>When the now much-quoted James Monroe uttered that famous phrase
\u201cAmerica for Americans\u201d in 1823, he could not have imagined that this
sincere statement would run through the entire subsequent history of US
foreign policy, much less that 200 years later one of his compatriots\u2014as
arrogant and ambitious as he was\u2014would raise the stakes.<span id="gmail-more-33015"></span></p>
<p>The former warned the European colonizers that their license to do as
they pleased on the continent stretching from south of the Rio Grande
to the confines of Tierra del Fuego had expired, not because he was a
vigilante, but because the aforementioned phrase meant that \u201cthose lands
are ours, the Americans.\u201d</p>
<p>His current imitator is not to be outdone. In addition to proclaiming
himself owner of Venezuelan lands and riches that do not belong to him,
appealing to the usual arrogance that characterizes him, he expands the
same colonizing desire when he thinks of Europe, Africa, or Asia. And
just as Monroe thought of putting a stop to the Europeans\u2019 expropriatory
zeal on the continent, Trump now appeals to the National Security
Strategy to enforce his regional dominance, by hook or by crook, leaving
his competitors Russia and China out of the game.</p>
<p>Donald Trump feels more like Monroe than Monroe himself, and just as
he longs for a Nobel Peace Prize, he must imagine that his name will be
used to label future streets and avenues in the countries that \u201cbelong
to him,\u201d as is already the case with his predecessor from the early
1800s.</p>
<p>Two centuries ago, the hypocrisy so carefully crafted by the gringos,
who tend to give their misdeeds grandiose aliases, named the period
during which Monroe governed the \u201cera of good feelings,\u201d so it is easy
to imagine that the current \u201cTrump Doctrine,\u201d of plunder, interference
in sovereign countries, and warmongering threats, will be given a
similar label, which will be repeated obediently by all his accomplices
in the long list of abuses committed.</p>
<p>In this sense, when Trump recently claimed, with a grim expression,
that he was ordering a total maritime blockade of Bolivarian Venezuela
until \u201cthey return to the US the oil and land they stole from us,\u201d he
was doing nothing more than obeying the imperial mandate that all
presidents who have passed through the White House have religiously
followed. It is no surprise that a large part of the US leadership truly
believes that Latin America and the Caribbean belong to them (that is
what the \u201cbackyard\u201d theory is all about) and every so often, they are
not only content to intervene in the economies of each of the countries,
but also show that this or that territory, including its natural
resources, is part of what they need for their future survival.</p>
<p>Some time ago, during Trump\u2019s first term, it was common to find in
study manuals or maps used in the United States that the Amazon was no
longer Brazilian or belonging to neighboring countries, but rather a
\u201cuniversal heritage.\u201d Following this definition, Washington promoted
private investment in carbon credits with technology companies such as
Microsoft and Google, generated USAID assistance with resources for
climate control, and many of these actions led to more deforestation, a
succession of massive fires whose perpetrators were never identified,
and illegal gold laundering. If it is \u201cuniversal,\u201d then it is also ours,
surely thought the billionaire friend of Zionist pedophile Jeffrey
Epstein.</p>
<p>Now, this twist in the \u201cTrump Doctrine\u201d has decided to increase the
pressure and is no longer content with maneuvers to co-opt political
leaders or hand-picked leaders (Javier Milei and Tito Asfura, for
example), but, taking advantage of the climate of right-wing and even
fascist tendencies that reigns on the continent and in the world, it has
left behind any kind of subtlety and is moving decisively against
countries such as Venezuela, which not only ideologically oppose the
\u201cmanifest destiny\u201d of US usurpation and abuse, but also, among other
common goods, have enough oil reserves to supply themselves for a
hundred years.</p>
<p>It can be said, without a doubt, that just as they did (and continue
to do) with Cuba for 66 years, they have tried everything with Venezuela
in the last quarter century, during which a popular, revolutionary, and
Chavista government has ruled the Caribbean country.</p>
<ul><li>A failed coup d\u2019état,</li><li>a failed oil coup,</li><li>guarimbas</li><li>and terrorist actions resulting in the deaths of numerous citizens,</li><li>attempts to invade by land from Colombia, thwarted by the unity of the people and the armed forces,</li><li>and a direct attack on President Nicolás Maduro and his cabinet using a drone carrying explosives.</li></ul>
<p>Added to all this is an economic blockade that has lasted several
years, the blatant intervention in airspace, and a sustained campaign of
foreign aggression with the complicity of Europe (subordinate to
everything the United States orders), the OAS, the DEA, the CIA, and
several Latin American leaders, including some who dare to call
themselves \u201cprogressives.\u201d</p>
<p>In the face of all these actions, the Bolivarian government and
people responded with fierce resistance and sustained progress in
deepening the Revolution. This is not the result of a miracle but of a
strong, coherent, and disciplined political will, which has enabled the
country to recover economically, just when the peoples of neighboring
countries, even with imperial support, are suffering from almost
everything, and day after day the gap between a small core of
ultra-millionaires and a gigantic mass of impoverished population
widens.</p>
<p><strong>Venezuela is an example, as Cuba always was, but it also has all the elements to become a great power in the region.</strong>
Hence the resentment and visceral hatred it generates in characters
like Trump, accustomed to everyone kneeling before their proposals of
submission.</p>
<p>Unlike other countries, mired in intrinsic weaknesses and overt
complicity with the policies imposed by Washington, the Bolivarian
revolutionary government has always responded with dignity and courage
to any kind of pressure, including the brazen military blockade that
Trump has imposed.</p>
<p><strong><em>Carlos Aznares</em> </strong>is a founding editor of the Resumen Latinoamericano</p>
<p>Source: <a href="https://cubaenresumen.org/2025/12/21/de-monroe-a-trump-dos-siglos-de-injerencia-imperial/">Cuba en Resumen</a></p>
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