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Friday, April 1st, 2011A young Theodore Roosevelt wrote a letter to President Cleveland to congratulate him for his astute handling of the Venezuelan border crisis. In that letter, true to the Rooseveltian aggressiveness, and contrary to the presiding executive, Teddy suggested that the United States should not stop with thwarting the British, but should also “drive the Spaniards [...]
Post-Shock Chile
Monday, March 28th, 2011The immediate effects of the 1975 reforms were dramatic, painful, and expected. The Chilean economists and their teachers from Chicago were under no illusions about the short-term hardships which would be caused by their immoderate plan to slay the evil of hyperinflation. In a letter to President Pinochet, Dr. Friedman underscored the severity of the [...]
The Venezuelan Border Crisis
Thursday, March 24th, 2011The most famous foreign policy dispute for which President Cleveland is remembered involved a border dispute between Venezuela and Great Britain. The British and Venezuelan governments had been involved in a contentious debate over the extreme western border of British Guiana since the early 19th century, when Britain initially obtained the land from the Netherlands [...]
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