{"id":114778,"date":"2026-03-19T18:03:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/?post_type=event&#038;p=114778"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:39:11","slug":"history-behind-the-headlines-us-intervention-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/event\/history-behind-the-headlines-us-intervention-in-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"History Behind the Headlines: US Intervention in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>History Behind the Headlines: US Intervention in Latin America<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>History Behind the Headlines<\/em><br \/>\nThursday, April 2, 5 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p>In early 2026, the United States arrested the president of Venezuela, imposed a blockade around Cuba, and issued threats to other Latin American nations under the authority of President Trump&#8217;s newly proclaimed &#8220;Don-roe Doctrine.&#8221; This History Behind the Headlines explored the history of US intervention in Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>Moderated by\u00a0<strong>Ben Vinson III (American Historical Assn.)<\/strong> and featuring <strong>George Reid Andrews (Univ. of<\/strong> Pittsburgh), <strong>Jurgen Buchenau (Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte)<\/strong>,<strong> Lillian Guerra (Univ. of Florida)<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>Alejandro Velasco (New York Univ.)<\/strong>, this hour-long online event was free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"History Behind the Headlines: US Intervention in Latin America\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/si_DCrbb0AI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History Behind the Headlines: US Intervention in Latin America History Behind the Headlines Thursday, April 2, 5 p.m. ET In&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11287,"template":"","aha-topic":[],"month":[555],"event-type":[100,101],"year":[901],"class_list":{"0":"post-114778","1":"event","2":"type-event","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","5":"hentry","6":"month-april","7":"event-type-aha-online","8":"event-type-history-behind-the-headlines","9":"year-901","13":"year-2026","14":"has-featured-image"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/114778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/114778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116648,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/114778\/revisions\/116648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"aha-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aha-topic?post=114778"},{"taxonomy":"month","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/month?post=114778"},{"taxonomy":"event-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-type?post=114778"},{"taxonomy":"year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year?post=114778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}