{"id":127541,"date":"2019-02-11T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=127541"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:52:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T10:52:28","slug":"us-regime-changes-the-historical-record-latin-america-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/02\/us-regime-changes-the-historical-record-latin-america-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"US \u2018Regime Changes\u2019&#8211;The Historical Record: Latin America, Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>4 Feb 2019 &#8211; <em>As the US strives to overthrow the democratic and independent Venezuelan government, the historical record regarding the short, middle and long-term consequences are mixed.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We will proceed to examine the consequences and impact of US intervention in Venezuela over the past half century. We will then turn to examine the success and failure of US \u2018regime changes\u2019 throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/petras.lahaine.org\/b2-img\/PetrasUSRegimeChanges.pdf\" >Read essay [PDF]<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>___________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/James-Petras.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-66207\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/James-Petras.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"91\" height=\"107\" \/><\/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><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/petras.lahaine.org\/us-regime-changes-the-historical-record\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 petras-lahaine.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 Feb 2019 &#8211; As the US strives to overthrow the democratic and independent Venezuelan government, the historical record regarding the short, middle and long-term consequences are mixed. We will proceed to examine the consequences and impact of US intervention in Venezuela over the past half century. We will then turn to examine the success and failure of US \u2018regime changes\u2019 throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":66207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127541","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\/127541","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=127541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}