The Donald Trump administration seeks to forcibly impose the US empire's hegemony in Latin America, waging war on Venezuela, imposing sanctions on Colombia's President Gustavo Petro, hitting Brazil with tariffs, and meddling in Argentina's election. Ben Norton explains how Trump and Marco Rubio are trying to cut off all western hemisphere ties with China and Russia, bringing back the colonial Monroe Doctrine, now known as the Donroe Doctrine.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcWH-LPyTow

Topics

0:00 Trump's war on Latin America

1:04 (CLIP) Trump meddles in Argentina's election

1:23 US imperial strategy in Latin America

2:02 (CLIP) Trump wants Venezuela's oil

2:14 Natural resources

2:41 Ties with China and Russia

3:02 Oligarchic counter-revolution

4:11 US war on Venezuela

7:50 Marco Rubio: coup-plotting war hawk

9:23 Fox News calls to colonize Venezuela

10:01 (CLIP) Fox News: Venezuela 51st US state

10:29 The "drug trafficking" excuse

11:10 Colombia's President Gustavo Petro

13:29 US-backed Colombian drug traffickers

14:24 US-backed drug lord Álvaro Uribe

17:05 The "war on drugs" is based on lies

18:10 Colombia moves closer to China

19:12 China: South America's top trading partner

20:41 USA meddles in Colombia's election

21:42 Monroe Doctrine to Donroe Doctrine

26:15 (CLIP) John Bolton boasts of coup attempt

27:05 Neocolonialism

28:26 US interventions in Latin America

30:32 USA colonized half of Mexico

31:11 Colonial "Banana Wars"

31:41 Goals of US war on Venezuela

32:33 William McKinley, imperialist

34:01 (CLIP) Trump vows to expand US empire

35:02 Trump takes mask off US empire

36:30 Outro