{"id":56758,"date":"2026-03-23T18:02:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=56758"},"modified":"2026-03-23T18:02:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:02:32","slug":"us-wants-to-colonize-us-again-lula-to-latin-american-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=56758","title":{"rendered":"<h2>US wants \u2018to colonize us again\u2019 \u2013 Lula to Latin American leaders<\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56759\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-23-at-6.01.55-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"587\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-23-at-6.01.55-PM.png 587w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-23-at-6.01.55-PM-300x247.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Latin America faces the threat of a return to colonial rule, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said, describing the White House\u2019s recent moves in the region as undemocratic.<\/p>\n<p>The United States kidnapped Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in January before imposing an oil blockade on Cuba last month after US President Donald Trump accused the island nation of being a threat. Washington has also launched numerous lethal, extrajudicial strikes on boats in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific in an attempt to fight drug trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Lula blasted Washington\u2019s foreign policy during the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) summit in Bogota, Columbia on Saturday, while refraining from directly mentioning the US or Trump.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s not possible for someone to think that they own other countries. What are they doing with Cuba now? What did they do with Venezuela? Is that democratic?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he asked rhetorically.<\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/635818-lula-cuba-us-trump\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/635818-lula-cuba-us-trump\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}