US Interventions Abroad
Jonathan Freedland takes the Long View of US interventions in its own backyard and further afield.
President Trump says he's considering options to intervene in Iran, amid ongoing protests. The threat comes hot on the heels of a dramatic US intervention in Venezuela, and threats to take over Greenland. Together, they suggest a shift in US foreign policy towards more open interventionism. Jonathan Freedland takes the Long View of US intervention abroad, exploring revealing parallels between current foreign policy and a covert American intervention in Guatemala in 1954.
Guests: Dr Grace Livingstone, Affiliated Lecturer at the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge; Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer, The New Yorker
Producer: Dan Hardoon
Reader: Sam Dale
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- Tue 13 Jan 202609:00BBC Radio 4
- Wed 14 Jan 202621:00BBC Radio 4
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The Long View
History series in which stories from the past shed light on current events
