Under President Donald Trump, the Monroe doctrine seems to be back. In 2019 John Bolton, then Mr Trump’s national security adviser, proclaimed it to be “alive and well” in a speech in which he pledged to topple the dictatorships of Venezuela and Cuba. The United States has so far failed in that, but its neo-Monrovianism has now produced a victory. It will take over the presidency of the Inter-American Development Bank (idb), a big regional lender which, though based in Washington, dc, has been in Latin American hands since its founding in 1959. On September 12th a virtual meeting of the board of governors chose Mauricio Claver-Carone, the Trump administration’s top official for Latin America, as the bank’s president. Bello Column. Full Text-> The Economist
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