28 MAR 1750 | Francisco de Miranda born | Captaincy General of Venezuela

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#NelsonDenis talks about his 2015 classic, #WarAgainstAllPuertoRicans.

The book focuses on the 1950 #JayuyaUprising, the product of a half-century of the United States' spoliation of the island and its people following the #SpanishAmericanWar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdx-v-HwMgk
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"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/
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#TheBolivarianRevolution, a collection of writings by #SímonBolívar with an introduction by #HugoChávez, is now available in free ebook format via #VersoBooks. (NB that the posted price for the ebook is discounted to zero once it's placed in the cart. It costs nothing to set up a Verso account):

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2093-the-bolivarian-revolution

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TODAY IN HISTORY: January 5, 1822 – First Mexican Empire Annexation

Central America’s governing council voted to annex the region to the First Mexican Empire, hoping Mexico would provide order after Spanish collapse.

The decision reflected post-colonial uncertainty more than ideological loyalty. 🌎📜

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The 1859 March Revolution in Venezuela started with reform but soon spiraled into the Federal War — a prolonged conflict over federalism, governance, and power that reshaped the nation’s political development.

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https://brewminate.com/from-reform-to-ruin-venezuelas-march-revolution-and-federal-war-in-1859/

Video en español

ENG: This video illustrates US military interventions in Latin America marked by coups, dictatorships, and wars that benefited US Corporate economic and geopolitical interests at the cost of millions of lives.

From Guatemala in 1954, where the CIA overthrew an elected president to protect the multinational United Fruit Company, to the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina, the pattern repeats itself: popular or reformist governments replaced by military dictatorships backed by Washington to secure foreign investment and control of resources.

In Central America, support for the Contras in Nicaragua and the Salvadoran army—including death squads—prolonged wars that left tens of thousands dead and missing. In the Southern Hemisphere, support for authoritarian regimes and the coordination of Plan Condor institutionalized torture and political assassination on a continental scale.

These are just a few examples. For decades, the United States acted as if Latin America were its backyard, building its economic hegemony on the exploitation of citizens and leaving behind a history of violence, chaos, and suffering that still marks the region today.

Research sources: foreignpolicy.com, educacao.uol.com.br, foreignaffairs.com, Cato Institute, University of Ecuador, thenationalpolicy.com, El Pais, peacehistory-usfp.org, congress.gov,

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#neocolonialism #authoritarianism
#corporategreed #corporatecrime
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#AmericanPrestige pod welcomes #GregGrandin for Part 1 of an interview about his recent book, #AmericaAmérica: A New History of the New World. Discussion includes the #SpanishConquest, aspects of English and Spanish #settlerColonialism, as well as the evolution of US-Latin American relations

https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/listen/american-prestige-1/e226-a-new-history-of-the-americas-pt-1-w-greg-grandin

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"It is a cruel humiliation to beg for help from men who are as uncaring as gold itself."

- Simón Bolívar, negotiating with London bankers, 1824

South and Central America's wars of independence were more destructive and expensive than North America's; but they also freed a larger area and (unlike the USA) renounced slavery from the beginning.

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