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5 min read🎙️ The Voices & The Context
- The Format: Casual intro banter between hosts followed by a deep-dive interview with a historian, blending current events (Venezuela crisis) with U.S. foreign policy history.
- The Key Players:
- Hosts: Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal – Bloomberg finance journalists with sharp, witty chemistry; they geek out on history while tying it to markets/oil/debt.
- Guest: Greg Grandin, Yale history professor and author of America, America: A New History of the New World – expert on Latin America, delivering nuanced, myth-busting takes.
- The Vibe: Educational yet engaging, with intellectual intensity; fun historical "aha" moments amid serious critique of U.S. imperialism.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **🎙️ Introduction: Greg Grandin**
- 2 (00:33) **Subjectivity in History and Venezuela Context**
- 3 (01:40) **Revival of Monroe Doctrine**
- 4 (05:46) **Origins and Initial Meaning of Monroe Doctrine**
- 5 (11:16) **Expansions and Interpretations Over Time**
- 6 (17:52) **FDR's Reversal and Good Neighbor Policy**
- 7 (21:26) **Nature of International Law**
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Show Notes
In some sense, the arrest of Maduro is nothing unusual. For over 200 years, the US viewed the entirety of the Western hemisphere as its legitimate domain for intervention. And of course, there's a long history of the US getting involved with Latin America specifically. But what is the Monroe Doctrine? And how does Trump's foreign policy fit into it. On this episode, we speak with Greg Grandin, a professor of history at Yale and author of America, América. Greg has extensively researched American activity in Latin America across his career. He explains the historical patterns of when America asserts its dominance in the region, and how that fits into other American policy priorities both abroad and at home.
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