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The Rift in Trump World Over Venezuela
The Trump administration wants to exert more control over Latin America. Will it come by deal-making or by force?
Greg Grandin
Greg Grandin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and the author of the new book "America, América: A New History of the New World." The Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale University, his “The End of the Myth” won a Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction in 2020.
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The Long History of Lawlessness in U.S. Policy Toward Latin America
By shipping immigrants to Nayib Bukele’s megaprison in El Salvador, Trump is using a far-right ally for his own ends.
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Latin America’s New Right Ushers in Pan-American Trumpism
The last right-wing American president before Trump galvanized a resurgent Latin American left. Where will the region go now?
Israel’s War on Gaza
How to Read the Israeli “Kidnapped” Posters
Images of the missing, from the Holocaust, Latin America, 9/11, and beyond.
The War on Immigrants
How the U.S. Weaponized the Border Wall
The idea of weaponizing the border reaches back to at least the 1970s, when the U.S. began to turn its attention away from the Vietnam War.
The War on Immigrants
The Border Patrol Has Been a Cult of Brutality Since 1924
Since its founding, the U.S. Border Patrol has arguably been the most politicized and abusive branch of federal law enforcement.