The Ghost of the Roosevelt Corollary and the Lies behind Intervention
By Marlon Londoño Reporters have written much about the so-called “Donroe Doctrine” in the wake of the January 3, 2026, U.S. military kidnapping of Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro. Observers have denounced the U.S. strike as an attack on the sovereignty of a Latin American nation, but the Trump administration has partially justified the military intervention…
Maduro Captured: On Photography and Mythmaking
By Daniel Runnels The photo of a detained Nicolás Maduro circulated worldwide on the morning after his capture is visual evidence of the definitive end of what was once called the Pink Tide in Latin America. Importantly, this photo depicts the end of the Pink Tide as having been imposed from without – from the…