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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video looking at Vice President Richard Nixon's 1958 Good Will Tour of Latin America and how rising anti-American sentiment not only resulted in his motorcade being attacked but the possibility of direct intervention by the US military. Communist Girl Scouts of America: https://youtu.be/QvgEHc0iyoQ ASALA, Armenia Secret Army: https://youtu.be/DFzIVfTNjH0 Amchitka Island Nuclear Test: https://youtu.be/Z89YnSS5RQA Soviet Criminal Underworld: https://youtu.be/zEJrivfLKGc Project Iceworm: Nukes Under the Ice: https://youtu.be/ePT8gp0LKsk Haiti and the Dominican Republic: https://youtu.be/apgYxvtDFQY Red Army Faction: https://youtu.be/wgYfTQJYCkI Colonial Indochina to 1945: https://youtu.be/uijOG8oYHgo First Indochina War pt. 1 GUERILLA: https://youtu.be/V9wSqx0W8h0 First Indochina War pt. 2 INTERNATIONALIZATION: https://youtu.be/58PAc7zAtSg Alcohol Prohibition in the USSR https://youtu.be/kyPdGderIxk Cocaine and Cartels: https://youtu.be/A9VA51N-Ug4 International Terrorism: https://youtu.be/VqHMjA35aLM Liberation Theology: https://youtu.be/Dfu2I_LTKt4 Iranian Nuclear Program: https://youtu.be/ZrNNeS31lNg The School of the Americas: https://youtu.be/3tYwj-7b_jU Birth of the Military Industrial Complex: https://youtu.be/8glmBbBENlk America's Secret Nuclear Disaster: https://youtu.be/iXSSCdlTst4 How Nuclear Deterrence Theory developed: https://youtu.be/UHIsdbvsuOY How the American Political Parties Switched Their Ideologies https://youtu.be/SdcreXEWzG0 How the RAND Corporation created American strategy: https://youtu.be/J1mH_O7MzJk The Nuclear Wannabes: Sweden, Brazil and Argentina: https://youtu.be/1LpL6Q1s7TA Israel: the Officially Unofficial Nuclear State: https://youtu.be/dcXSkpRDp2k Taiwan Under the Kuomintang Dictatorship: https://youtu.be/nGYzXNpQclo What Happened to the German and Japanese POWs?: https://youtu.be/JLK1xQV9B84 Soviet Education System: https://youtu.be/AD_JwbivtMA How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TheColdWar, Youtube membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/join ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/thecoldwar ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/thecoldwartv ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/thecoldwartv #ColdWar #ColdWarHistory #History #ModernHistory #Venezuela #Nixon #Richard Nixon #latinamerica #latinamericanhistory #195847 **SOURCES** FRUS, 1958–1960, American Republics, Volume V. “Vice President Richard M. Nixon’s Trip to South America, April 27–May 15, 1958” (document collection). https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v05/comp4 “Vice President Nixon’s Trip to South America” (Memorandum by William P. Snow), May 9, 1958. FRUS, 1958–1960, American Republics, Vol. V, Document 44. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v05/d44 “Attack on Vice President Nixon and His Party” (Telephone conversation memo), May 13, 1958, 2:00 p.m. FRUS, 1958–1960, American Republics, Vol. V, Document 46. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v05/d46 “Dispatch of Marines to Caracas” (Telephone conversation memo), May 13, 1958. FRUS, 1958–1960, American Republics, Vol. V, Document 48. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v05/d48? “Situation in Venezuela” (Telephone conversation memo between Rubottom and Snow), May 13, 1958, 9:15 p.m. FRUS, 1958–1960, American Republics, Vol. V, Document 51. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v05/d51 “Telephone conversation with Navy re AP report of war vessel” (Telephone conversation memo), May 13, 1958 (late evening). FRUS, 1958–1960, American Republics, Vol. V, Document 52. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v05/d52 https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/nixon-faces-riots-tour-latin-america Lowenthal, Abraham F. “United States Policy Toward Latin America: ‘Liberal,’ ‘Radical,’ and ‘Bureaucratic’ Perspectives.” Latin American Research Review 8, no. 3 (Autumn 1973): 3–25. Thyne, Clayton L. “Supporter of Stability or Agent of Agitation? The Effect of US Foreign Policy on Coups in Latin America, 1960–99.” Journal of Peace Research 47, no. 4 (July 2010): 449–461. Zahniser, Marvin R., and W. Michael Weis. “A Diplomatic Pearl Harbor? Richard Nixon’s Goodwill Mission to Latin America in 1958.” Diplomatic History 13, no. 2 (Spring 1989): 163–190. https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4370431/trump-announces-us-militarys-capture-of-maduro https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10452 https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trumps-foreign-policy-called-imperialist-by-experts-2026-01-15/?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://www.chathamhouse.org/2026/01/us-capture-president-nicolas-maduro-and-attacks-venezuela-have-no-justification