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The recent military attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of its president and his wife make it clear once again that the people of what we currently call the Global South need a planetary anti-imperialist solidarity to live uncolonized in a capitalist world. Without that solidarity, their very lives are subject to the quest for profits that drive the nations seeking global empires. Without that solidarity, the formerly-colonized and the currently colonized peoples cannot thrive without fear of domination via economic domination and military invasion. Many have pointed out that the nature of the US attack and kidnapping was reminiscent of US actions in Latin America undertaken in the past, from the Spanish-American war to the 1965 invasion of the Dominican Republic and beyond. The attack’s blatant violation of sovereignty and military brutishness being the most obvious of those characteristics. Of course, the underlying politics and imperial illusions have never faltered, no matter what approach the US has taken. In other words, John F. Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress was seeking the same relationship with the people of Latin America as Donald Trump is.

In the first half of the twentieth century, an international organization founded and mostly located in the countries of Latin America worked toward achieving international solidarity against western (especially that of the United States) imperialism.........

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