Members of the Mexican armed forces, in Mexican Revolution-era uniforms, parade to mark the 114th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution in Mexico Metropolis, Mexico, on November 20, 2024.
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Danny and Derek as soon as once more converse with historian Greg Grandin about his current guide, America, América: A New History of the New World. On this second a part of the dialog, they comply with US–Latin American relations from the American Civil Battle via the current. The dialogue covers the Spanish-American Battle of 1898 and the contradictions of US enlargement cloaked within the language of human rights, the Mexican Revolution as a defining problem to US energy, Woodrow Wilson’s and FDR’s occupations and the Good Neighbor Coverage, the Chilly Battle, the neoliberal flip, the endurance of social actions within the face of American-backed violence, and why modern Latin American politics nonetheless shows revolutionary undercurrents.
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