Empire’s Workshop & US Imperialist History in Latin America

NinaIllingworth February 3, 2019November 5, 2022 American history, Books, Bush, Bush Jr, Can't You Read, CIA, CIA black ops in Latin America, Clinton, colonialism, Cuba, death squads, Empire's Workshop, Empire’s Workshop: Latin America the United States and the Rise of the New Imperialism, Essays, fascism, Ford Motors, forever war, France, Good Neighbor Policy, Greg Grandin, Hugo Chavez, Imperialism, John Bolton, Latin America, Libya, MP6, Nicaragua, Nicolas Maduro, Nina Illingworth, Obama, Offsite Writing, oil, Panama, pig empire, Portugal, regime change, Spain, Spanish American War, Standard Oil, the United States, Trump, Trump coup in Venezuela, United Fruit Company, Venezuela, war, WD7, William Walker

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Grandin’s “Empire’s Workshop” and US Imperialism in Latin America

Building on our previous look at Seymour Hersh’s “the Price of Power” and the history of neoliberal Pig Empire f*ckery in Chile, I decided to expand out our scope a little bit for this combination book review and commentary piece about Greg Grandin’s excellent “Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism.” Touching on a period that spans over a century, Grandin’s highly recommended study demonstrates that despite a near-constant churn of changing U.S leadership, the Pig Empire has constantly sought to exert power, including through violent means, over literally every single country in Latin America – of which Venezuela is clearly no exception. Given this violent, destructive and wholly exploitative history, we’re forced to ask why would the people of Venezuela, or for that matter folks anywhere else on earth, want our help at all?

To read more about the Pig Empire’s Latin American Workshop and why the imperial quest for regime change in Venezuela has never ended over on Can’t You Read, click on the title header or quotation block below.

Empire’s Workshop and a History of American Intervention

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