Does US intervention in Venezuela represent a return to the Monroe Doctrine?

Does US intervention in Venezuela represent a return to the Monroe Doctrine?

By Bryan Renbaum
January 8, 2026

For more than two centuries, U.S. foreign policy has stipulated that any threat to the nation's self-interest that arises in the American hemisphere justifies intervention by Washington. President James Monroe first espoused that policy in 1823 to deter European powers from getting involved in Latin [...]

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