What America Means to Latin Americans

From Fighting to Facilitating Fascism: Historian Explores Latin American History

Greg Grandin also discusses the legacy of the late Pope Francis, US-Latin American relations under Trump, and more.

What America Means to Latin Americans

Geraldo Carava writes about the new book from the Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Grandin, which tells the history of the hemisphere from south of the border.

“America, América”: Greg Grandin on Latin American History, from Colonization to CECOT to Pope Francis

We spend the hour with acclaimed historian Greg Grandin discussing his new book, America, América: A New History of the New World, which spans five centuries of North and South American history since the Spanish conquest, including the fight against fascism in the 1930s. He examines the U.S.-Latin American relationship under Trump, with a focus on El Salvador, Panama, Ecuador and Cuba. Grandin also has a new piece for The Intercept that draws on

The Long History of Lawlessness in U.S. Policy Toward Latin America

By shipping immigrants to Nayib Bukele’s megaprison in El Salvador, Trump is drawing on a deep history of U.S. involvement in Latin America.

Latin America Three Months into the Trumpocalypse

Nobody is complaining anymore about Latin America and the Caribbean being neglected by the hegemon to the north. The Trump administration is contending with it on multiple fronts: prioritizing “massive deportations,” halting the “flood of drugs,” combatting “threats to US security,” and stopping other countries from “ripping us off” in trade. The over 200-year-old Monroe Doctrine is alive and on steroids. But has Washington taken a sharp right t…

A New History of the New World - 3 Quarks Daily

Anthony Pagden at Literary Review: South America’, declared the North American Review in the early 19th century, ‘will be to North America what Asia and Africa are to Europe.’ ‘Not quite,’ says Greg Grandin. But also not for want of trying. America, América is the by turns woeful, despairing and ironic tale of the USA’s sustained attempts to turn its southern neighbours into clients or dependencies, if not colonies. But it is also a passionate p…