2/2 This follows an earlier essay on the longer genealogy of US “policing” in Latin America. History rarely repeats itself faithfully. It prefers paraphrase.
If you’d like the footnotes behind the headlines (and the ghosts behind the slogans), here it is:
theconversation.com/trump-is-rep...
US interventions in the region have led to coups, revolutions and what some analysts are now calling illegal extrajudicial killings.