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What history tells us about interventions in Venezuela and Panama

It may not be a far stretch to compare what’s happening today in Venezuela to what happened in 1989 in Panama, when the U.S. military invaded and removed its leader, Manuel Noriega.

Here & Now’s Scott Tong speaks with Princeton University historian Julian Zelizer.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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