Back to old ways: Maduro’s capture follows long list of US interventions in Latin America

Washington has orchestrated dozens of regime changes in the region in the 20th century alone, including through direct military invasions

The US operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has become the latest chapter in a long saga of interventions and regime changes staged by Washington all over Latin America over the past century.

Under the 19th-century Monroe Doctrine, the US essentially declared the Western Hemisphere America’s backyard.