"Half the world belongs to us!" - How does the Monroe Doctrine still have an impact today
“This is our hemisphere” - with these words, Donald Trump describes the United States' claim to hegemony over North and South America. With the intervention in Venezuela in January 2026, the United States continues a long period of influence, intervention, and imposition of interests by military force in Latin America. Stefan Reinke shows how the relationship between the Americas has developed over the past few centuries, and what the forms of intervention have beenAmerican policy that can be observed, and what are the consequences of this policy that have had and continue to have in Latin America, as well as in the United States and Europe.
