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Кризис Венесуэлы показывает, что мы близки к конфликту Venezuela Crisis shows we are close to Showdown
VENEZUELA CRISIS: U. S. HAS PAINTED ITSELF INTO CORNER Introduction Venezuela has the dubious fortune of being located on the continent of South America, which the United States has treated under the socalled Monroe Doctrine as its exclusive zone of political, economic, and military influence. In practical terms it meant that whenever a Latin American government pursued a policy at odds with Washingtons preferences, it would be subjected to measures ranging from economic sanctions to outright military invasion. Latin America became one of the many battlefields of the Cold War when several countries sought to leave the US shadow and align themselves with USSR. The US retaliation was harsh, and included the support for the brutal military coup in Chile, training of death squads in Honduras and El Salvador, support for the socalled Contras in Nicaragua, not to mention the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Continue:
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