{"id":127069,"date":"2019-02-04T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=127069"},"modified":"2019-02-11T11:19:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T11:19:13","slug":"peculiarities-of-us-imperialism-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/02\/peculiarities-of-us-imperialism-in-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Peculiarities of US Imperialism in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>28 Jan 2019 &#8211; <em>Understanding imperialism as a general phenomenon loses sight of its modus operandi in any specific and meaningful context. While the exercise of imperialist power is a common strategy, its motives, instruments, objectives and engagement vary, depending on the nature of the imperial ruler and targeted country.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Venezuela, the current target of US, President Donald Trump, is a case illustrating the \u2018peculiarities\u2019 of imperialist politics. We will proceed to outline the background, techniques and impact of the imperial power grab.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/petras.lahaine.org\/b2-img\/PetrasUSImperialism.pdf\" >Read essay [PDF]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>___________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/james-petras-e1497793376538.gif\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80568 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/james-petras-e1497793376538.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. He is the author of more than 62 books published in 29 languages, and over 600 articles in professional journals. He has a long history of commitment to social justice, working in particular with the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement for 11 years. In 1973-76 he was a member of the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Repression in Latin America. He writes a monthly column for the Mexican newspaper, <\/em><em>La Jornada<\/em><em>, and previously, for the Spanish daily, <\/em><em>El Mundo<\/em><em>. He received his B.A. from Boston University and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/petras.lahaine.org\/peculiarities-of-us-imperialism-in-latin\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 petras-lahaine.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 Jan 2019 &#8211; Understanding imperialism as a general phenomenon loses sight of its modus operandi in any specific and meaningful context. While the exercise of imperialist power is a common strategy, its motives, instruments, objectives and engagement vary, depending on the nature of the imperial ruler and targeted country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":80568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anglo-america","category-latin-america-and-the-caribbean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}