"Before Nicolás Maduro and Hugo Chávez, there was #CiprianoCastro. Before Donald Trump, there was Theodore Roosevelt. And before petroleum, there was asphalt pitch. The following excerpt from #AmericaAmérica: A New History of the New World is a timely reminder that behind today’s headlines announcing any given crisis in #LatinAmerica often stands a long history of imperial outrages."
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/venezuela-tar-wars/
#Venezuela #USimperialism #LatinAmericanHistory #plusÇaChange #books @bookstodon
