The Dig: Empire's Workshop with Greg Grandin
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🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 85 minutes
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The history of the United States is in no small part the history of US intervention in Latin America. Historian Greg Grandin on his classic book Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Making of an Imperial Republic.
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| 1:30.2 | Today, the transnational wars on crime and drug trafficking have displaced anti-communism |
| 1:36.6 | to become the dominant frameworks for prosecuting and legitimating US intervention in Latin America, |
| 1:42.8 | particularly in Mexico and Central America. |
| 1:45.9 | Proversially, these violent interventions, along with hardening militarized border controls, |
| 1:52.4 | not only at the US southern border, but through southern Mexico and beyond. |
| 1:57.4 | It's also all supposed to help stop people from migrating to the United States. |
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