By Jack Phillips President Donald Trump said on Dec. 10 that the United States seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela in what appears to be an escalation in the administration’s campaign against the country over drug trafficking. “We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, a large tanker, very large, […]
Tag: Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine, declared by President James Monroe in 1823, was a foundational U.S. foreign policy stating the Americas were closed to further European colonization and interference, while the U.S. would stay out of European affairs, establishing spheres of influence and American hemispheric preeminence, though it was later expanded by figures like Theodore Roosevelt to justify U.S. intervention in Latin America.
