Hey everyone, this is moderate rebels. I'm Ben Norton. I was invited by an anti-war group in the United States called Massachusetts Peace Action to give a talk on U.S. imperialism in Latin America.

I decided to turn that talk into an episode. I spoke for about two hours and I took some questions from the audience and we discussed a huge variety of issues involving Latin America and the bipartisan U.S. imperialism, the bipartisan policies that we see regardless of who is in the White House. So I talked about how

similar Biden's foreign policy has been to Donald Trump's, and I talked about a variety of

countries, including Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador. I also talked about Peru, Colombia, Chile.

I mean, really an overview of the region and really looking at modern politics and the role

of Washington and meddling in other countries' democracies.

So without further ado, here is my talk.

Thanks for listening or watching.

Welcome, everyone, to tonight's event about Latin America and Joe Biden and U.S. imperialism.

We're really honored tonight to be joined by Ben Norton.

Ben is a journalist with the Grey Zone.

Ben is a writer and a filmmaker.

As you might have heard, he's calling in live from Nicaragua.

So he has a lot of experience in the region.

He's lived there for a while,

and we're really fortunate to be joined by Ben.

So Ben, thank you so much for joining us.

It's a pleasure to be here.

Thanks for having me. Of course. All right, Ben, thank you so much for joining us. It's a pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me.

Of course. All right, Ben, to get us started, just today, a few of our members in our Latin

America working group, they were circulating an article you wrote, I think it's titled Biden's

Plan for Central America. Could you talk to us about that article? Absolutely. So as many people have

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