Joshua Philipp

The unfortunate reality with a lot of Latin America is most of their governments are narco governments.

And most of their governments are compromised by the cartels.

And very few of them do not have ties to it because it's very hard to get power otherwise.

What you're watching in Venezuela and most of Latin America, drugs are part of it, but it's not really about drugs.

It's about the Monroe Doctrine.

And it's about which country basically is the unofficial regional leader of Latin America.

Because what Chavez did prior to Maduro, he got rid of the Monroe Doctrine.

So the Monroe Doctrine, 1800s, it was basically the U.S.

policy.

Latin America, the global south is America's backyard.

Europe is not allowed to have new colonies there.

If they do, we'll fight them, basically.

That was maintained through the Cold War.

You know, that's where we had the Cuban Missile Crisis and everything else and so on and so forth, right?

That was America's backyard.

No outside intervention.

And of course, you know, for our security, for everything else, it is important to us.

America basically has not been... We've not had that.

And we haven't had it for a long time.

And a big part of that is because of the different coalitions that were established between Venezuela and Cuba, right?