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The New Monroe Doctrine: How Washington Is Rewriting Sovereignty in the Age of Resource Politics

For months, US President Donald Trump has insisted his administration’s campaign in Venezuela is a counter-narcotics mission. Washington’s talking points lean heavily on the fentanyl crisis, the need for decisive action, the dangers of “transnational criminal networks.” Yet the U.S. State Department’s own 2025 report names Mexico and China as the only significant fentanyl sources affecting the United States. The document is explicit. The drug … Continue reading The New Monroe Doctrine: How Washington Is Rewriting Sovereignty in the Age of Resource Politics

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A Century of Intervention: How U.S.–Venezuela Relations Slowly Boiled Into the 2025 Airspace Standoff

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Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo

Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo is a social justice activist, writer and blogger.

If you were to trace the arc of U.S.–Venezuela relations, the current drama unfolding over the Caribbean skies does not appear as an isolated provocation. It resembles the final bead on a long, heavy necklace of misunderstandings, miscalculations, and ambitions stretching back more than a century. The decision by former President Donald J. Trump in yesterday to declare Venezuelan airspace “closed” may be dramatic, but it is also profoundly familiar in the long history of Washington’s entanglements with nations whose strategic value has been measured in barrels, borders, and ideology.

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