
Over the weekend, US forces struck Venezuela and captured Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, taking them to New York City to stand trial. Now the question is: why are we intervening in Venezuela like this? What is the Monroe Doctrine and why is Trump newly obsessed with it? Here's what history tells us about intervention in Latin America.
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