About this episode
The Monroe Doctrine implemented in 1823 by the then president of the United States, James Monroe, was designed to tell the European colonial powers to get out of their backyard. Make no mistake - Latin America was Uncle Sam's. Now dubbed the Donroe Doctrine after the current US president, their military operation in Venezuela in January was just the latest in a series of incursions in countries deemed to have strayed too far from US influence - Guatemala, Haiti, Chile, Grenada and Panama among them. Cuba next? Once the US has finished in Iran? Joe and Daniel discuss Washington's meddling in Latin America while the drones cause destruction on the other side of the world.
