Okay, here we go. Welcome to what the F is going on in Latin America and the Caribbean, a popular resistance broadcast of hot news out of the region in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti Americas team code pink common frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, Interreligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas, we broadcast Thursdays at 430pm Pacific, 730pm Eastern right here on YouTube live, including channels for the Convo couch popular resistance and code pink. Post broadcast recordings can be found at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Telegram, redindymedia.com, and now under podcasts at popularresistance.org. Today's episode, bearing 200 years of the Monroe Doctrine, and I'm really pleased for all of you to meet our guest today. Activist friend and Venezuelan Vice Minister of Foreign Relations for North America, Carlos Ron. He's joining us live from Chile this evening. And we're going to have him talk to us about the Monroe Doctrine specifically focusing on South America and what Simone Bolivar experienced in his life and, and how this whole US foreign policy has extended through today. And so let me give you all just a brief background as to what the context of the Monroe Doctrine is I'm sure most of you know but let me just do this for educational purposes. Excuse me, the Monroe Doctrine first articulated by US President James Monroe on December 2 1823, making this year 200 years is a United States foreign policy position that opposes European colonialism in Western in the Western It holds that any intervention in the political fairs of the Americas by foreign powers is a potentially hostile act against the United States. The doctrine was central to American foreign policy for much of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The doctrine remains in place today as a pillar of US foreign policy towards Latin America and the Caribbean, and no longer exclusively applies to European powers. So welcome Carlos. Really wonderful to have your time today. I'm very glad to be here. So maybe for the audience. We should start with with 1823 and what that what that meant for South America and the Caribbean. Well, I'll leave it, maybe I'll even say even a bit earlier than that. But you know that I think we have to, we have to think about the foundations of the United States of America. And the, the ideologies that came forth with, with, you know, with the success of 13 colonies that managed to break away from the British crown and form, you know, a new republic. In a sense, the process of independence was different from North and South America so I'm going to really, you know, usually talk about, but it's different in the sense that, you know, the, they were sort of inverted in order.  You know, when, when the pilgrims came to North America and and then all the other colonies started to be, you know, settled, they were really already breaking off from their relationship to the crown, and starting a new society. So, when, when they arrived in Plymouth Rock in 1620, you basically had an independent group of people that really had, you know, little ties to the crown except for the fact that they were nominally and you know subject to the crown but they were they were pretty almost expelled from Britain because of religious purposes, and they started to settle, you know, their own way of organizing and their own, you know, self ruling system, which later then, you know, started to, you know, on a process of growth and exploration conquest, really, when they started, you know, going against the native populations.  We should be able to tell you what to do.  So, and that's where, you know, the declaration of independence comes about. But the process really had already taken place. It already started as an independent, you know, sort of organization. In the Spanish colonies, it was different. In the Spanish colony, Spain came in, the crown came in, the crown conquered, the crown settled, the crown began the process, and then it was then that, you know, the people already, you know, felt that they needed to, you know, organize, break away. It was, it was a backward sort of process. But what that gave the US was an advantage over, you know, being able to already develop, you know, its own political organization, being able to already develop, you know, its means of production, independent from the crown. We didn't have that.  You know, and not really for Spain, by the way, Spain, Spain became impoverished because of this process, because the different kings that ruled, and kings and queens that ruled Spain at different points in time. They really didn't invest that fortune in Spain, but rather place it in the European banks. So actually, you know, the countries that, the countries that actually become stronger, because of this exploitation is the countries that have the banks like Great Britain, basically, not Spain. It gets to a point where Spain actually, you know, becomes so in that and didn't, because Spain is basically putting all the muscle and paying for the soldiers to be there, but not really investing back that money.   That decay, you know, is something that would eventually in the earlier parts of the 19th century is what's going to help the independence movements in South America. You have a demoralized army, you have, you know, a poor country, and it's just gave way for independence movements in South America and Central America to move forward. Now, this is important because, see, at these times, you know, these, there's these thought currents going through the United States saying, look, we developed, we, you know, became a republic, we are ahead of, you know, of this region.  In both cases, what you have is, again, you know, US exceptionalism and a complete disregard for Latin Americans capability of doing things for themselves. I say this because back in 1786, just 10 years after independence. There's a famous letter that, you know, Thomas Jefferson writes, when he's somehow asked, you know, why doesn't the US do anything else, anything more to help the, you know, the Spanish colonies free themselves and become independent and the reply that Jefferson gives in 1786 is our confederacy, I'm quoting, our confederacy must be viewed as the nest from which all America north and south is to be peopled. We should take care to not think it for the interests of that great continent to press too soon on the Spaniards. Those countries cannot be in better hands. Meaning us colonies in the hands of the Spanish crown. My fear says Jefferson is that they are too feeble Spanish they're too feeble to hold them till our population can be sufficiently advanced to gain it from them piece by piece. Now, this is the founding father, you know, one of the guy who writes, you know, congressional independence, right. He's telling you right off, you know, we, you know, we don't see anything wrong with Spanish that was being holding these republics we just we're just waiting till we're strong enough to take it from them. From the beginning, the perspective from the north is this belongs to us, we develop earlier so we have the right or we have the duty, whatever you want to, you know, see it as to control this hemisphere. This is later reproduced by all these founding fathers throughout, you know, the rest of the rest of the Latin American war of independence. And then you see this, you know, this, this, this doctrine or the speech that Monroe gives. Again, these are all, you know, people that lived around the same. All the same, all the same plan. Right. And this is the moment when Monroe says, you know, by the way, there was a lot of exchanges between Monroe and Jefferson on issues regarding, you know, the region. And for example, you know, one of the things that Jefferson said to Monroe was, you know, I think the most important thing here is Cuba. We've always seen Cuba, you know, we always seen the Iowa with I've always thought says Jefferson that, you know, the most interesting thing we can do with Cuba is an exit. You know, this is this already seen, you know, from the start. So what we're getting at this is nothing new. This is not this is not only this is nothing new. This is this is a this is a projected plan from the founding of the United States, and it's not going to change unless unless, you know, you have a you have one or two things, either Latin Americans renounce completely to, you know, their independence and their, and their, you know, expectations of being a sovereign continent, or the United States, you know, adopt something different from an imperialist perspective on the region. And that's why, you know, those things haven't had those two things, neither of those two things have happened in the 200 years of history that we have with the Monroe doctrine and I don't think it, you know, that will happen soon. In any case, I'm more hopeful that, you know, things in the United States which some someday change because people in the United States, you know, take control and sort of, you know, change that the attitude of the government, then, you know, Latin Americans basically just renouncing to any, you know, possibility of having a future or a destiny. Now, this is as early as I said at 1786. Meanwhile, this is the same year that Francisco Miranda who's the precursor of Latin American dependence, who's a very important figure, because he, you know, personally, he was a wonderful, you know, military strategist. He fought in the US in the American Revolution. He fought in the French Revolution. And he basically, you know, leads or begins the movement of independence South America, the flags that you see yellow blue red in Venezuela, and he's the one in Ecuador today were his design. The name Columbia is his making. So, so he in the same year that Jefferson is writing the letter that you know that I read to you, he is out in as far as Greece and Turkey trying to find help trying to find support for expedition to free the Latin American or the South American and Caribbean colonies.  And he writes, he knows of Miranda going about and he writes to the British count. Be careful this man is crazy. This man is dangerous. Don't help this man. So, see, the idea that the Monroe doctrine was somehow established in 1823 in order to safeguard the independence of the South American Republic is not true. What they were trying to say for was was, you know, the possibility that the United States will not have any competition in the region. And this competition was not only, you know, of the classic European colonial powers that we know, Germany, Holland, at that time, France, Britain, but also, you know, you have the case of Russia, Russia, as we all remember, you know, used to own Alaska. And Russia was also at the same time in 1823. You know, funny that these things, you know, sort of repeat those in history, but Russia at the same time was coming down from, you know, from the West, thinking or, you know, there was there was some possibility that Russia might expand out to, you know, to what today is, you know, the West of Canada and California and so forth and Washington, Oregon and California.  So, can I just interrupt for a moment, just for the audience, because this is, I think it's just really important you've mentioned Russia because for those of us who grew up in the Western United States, specifically California, but the Northwest in general, and also the Southwest, that in 1823 was all part of Mexico and Spain, and Russia had expanded its fur trade, all the way down to Fort Ross, which is the Sonoma, it's on the, what is today the Sonoma Coast of California. And so you had both Spain and Russia to the West, the United States wanted the country to be Atlantic to Pacific. And so you had all of that going on in the western part of the Americas as well. It's fascinating. Yeah. It's fascinating to get the way you are. It's really fascinating to see all the. There was a lot of things, there was a lot of movement at the time. Yeah, we don't, we don't think to, you know, we don't think it happened but you know, again, as part of the way we learn history. We kind of think that these places were, you know, blank on the map and then they started getting colonized. Yes. And then people came in. Your thoughts were there as well. And you had, and what you don't have now is that, you know, at that time the United States didn't have control of the whole, you know, from sea to shining sea kind of thing, you know, you had, you had the, you know, they only had, there was contention there.  And the expedition that went north to Florida, they took over Amelia Island. And then there was, you know, the, you know, there was a, there's a contention there with the United States and, and, and Spain and you know, and try to reconquer the area and so forth. But you know, these, these times were times where things were more even now. But as war basically depleted, you know, the south of resource human, I mean, Venezuela lost half of its population. And think about that half of the country's population fighting a war of independence.  And that's why it was able to grow faster. So then because he knew that this was going on, it had to, it had to gain control over these resources. See, when you look at the history of the Monroe Doctrine, you have several corollaries, which are, you know, small that adaptations that are made out so that you can have a different, different moments, you know, expand or explain or deepen the meaning of the doctrine. But here you begin to see how the United States vision, you know, just starts growing. The first corollary, you know, that we can mention is the Hayes corollary in 1880. And basically this was an attempt to block any, any attempt from other European countries to build an inter-oceanic canal. There was, there was a project. There was an idea to build a canal through Nicaragua. And they, you know, and so the U.S. would, and then they would lose control. Imagine if you had a canal, you had control of both oceans. Right. That's why, that's why they, they tried, you know, they moved forward towards obtaining the, you know, the goodwill of the Colombian Congress so that they could build the canal through Panama. Panama at the time was part of Colombia. Yes. Now what happens? There comes a point where the Colombian Congress is, wait a minute. You can't have control of this.  So there's tensions between, you know, the agreement or the possibility of there being an agreement with the U.S. about building this, this canal. And basically what the U.S. starts doing is promoting an independence movement in Panama, saying these people are being oppressed, you need, you know, we need to help them. They need their freedom. They need their, you know, democracy ideas that we know about. Yeah, it's like the playbook has just never changed. Oh, it's like the 200 year old playbook and they haven't changed one part of it. That's right. And that's how, and that's how Panama, you know, this is a process that Panama, I mean, I'm not, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying there are, you know, original interests and nationalist feelings and, you know, from the Panamanian people, that that's a whole different issue. But the fact that the Republic broke away was was a lot to do, had a lot to do with, you know, the process of the U.S. and the building of the canal.   In 1895 or something else, the only corollary, you know, they then start saying, well, the moral doctrine allows us to intervene in any place that we believe might generate a conflict or might generate a possibility of, you know, another empire coming in or another international power coming in. It's 1885 is an interesting day for Venezuela because this is where this contention with Great Britain that it's not that we, you know, we're still carrying today with Ghana over, you know, this territory that the Venezuela still claims. Well, this is the moment where the United States comes in, sides with Venezuela or with the Venezuelan claim. So are we talking about the Esaquibo here, the territory between Venezuela and Guyana? Yes, this is, this is the moment where, you know, the United States intervenes in order to kick out basically what they wanted to do is, you know, restrain the British presence. But it was sloppy, and not only was sloppy, it was controlled, it was a process that was controlled by the U.S., by U.S. interests and not by Venezuelan interests because we were in the middle of, you know, civil wars. So part of the reason, and you know, there's a whole, I know there's a whole different subject, but I'll just say this, part of the reason we're in this contention today with Guyana is because the treaty that ends up being signed in 1899 with a lot of, you know, the U.S. intervention in the treaty was completely, you know, it was completely irregular. It wasn't done with Venezuelans, you know, it wasn't done for Venezuela, it was done in the name of Venezuela so that U.S. could, you know, have its interests play out in the region. And that's why we, to today, still contest that treaty. Yeah, that treaty also, that particular piece of land is oil-rich, correct? Yes, yes. Actually, it's seaboard more than anything, but. Yes, okay, yeah, okay. So, bringing, you know, closer to today, you know, in Roosevelt's corollary, 1902, again, it's when they say the U.S. has the right to intervene in Latin American affairs whenever a country is not able to defend or to keep up its financial compromises. Again, it's a time where Venezuela is being blocked by foreign companies trying to, you know, make us pay some debts and so forth. And the United States basically intervenes saying, you know, we have the right to come in and, you know, organize whenever a Latin American country is not able to organize its own finances and its own, you know, affairs. Again, what we see, what we see is how this document or this doctrine became really a tool that you stretch, you know, every year, you know, with something different, and you justify American or U.S., as you say, intervention into any of, you know, the internal affairs of our countries. I'll give you one last corollary, just so you see the extent of this. In 1912, the Lodge Corollary basically says that U.S. has the right to intervene even when, you know, when there's the possibility of foreign interventions by private interests, foreign private interests. There was a moment in Mexico was thinking about selling part of the Magdalena Bay, which is in in in Mexico's west coast. They were thinking about, you know, privatizing basically it's part of the Bay to some Japanese private interests. And here also U.S. intervenes and breaks the deal and doesn't allow this deal to move forward because, you know, again, you know, it was refusing the presence of foreign interests, but not only foreign as a country or as a state, but also as private interests from other countries. So again, it's just look how look how years go on. And look how, you know, you're able to play with this doctrine and, and sort of, you know, shape of all types of interventions throughout the 20th century. This, this is cruel, even further, the United States stab, you know, wanted to, again, have more control over the Caribbean. So you had a series of interventions from Puerto Rico from Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nicaragua in Nicaragua, you know, you see Nicaragua was was was basically private U.S. citizens going there and taking over, you know, land and then the U.S. coming in the country backing up these.  Yeah, so we'll somehow come in and, you know, take over land and then you have the whole country coming in and backing, backing that up and supporting that. It was, it was, it was the whole, the whole doctrine throughout the 20, you know, the end of the 19th century, the 20th century, and even some of the 21st century has been, you know, a tool for occupating territories for Nicaragua, Haiti, Panama, appropriating, you know, customs like they did in Dominican Republic, taking control of the oil production like they did in Mexico, like they did in Venezuela, taking control of the mines like they did in Peru and Bolivia and Chile, taking control of, you know, even the meat production like they did in Argentina or finances like they did in Brazil is a way, you know, to justify all these sorts of intervention against our, you know, region and against, you know, the sovereignty and the will of the Latin American people. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. I have to, I mean, just, I'll say this again, it's just the same. Yeah. I mean, you've mentioned the Nicaragua canal. Okay, that's still in play today. That's an incredibly hot subject now. And it's in my opinion, and I'm sure yours as well, it's part of the whole anti-Ortega government narrative coming out of the United States. The foreign investment by Japan in Mexico just keep, I mean, it's, so today it's Russia, China, Iran, India, all these other foreign investments in the hemisphere that the United States is trying to push out. I think it's probably too late for that. I mean, it's just, it's the same. Now the modalities vary because you see during the 20th century, and this is probably the, you know, the most painful of all of these histories. In just between 62 and 68, you had at least 14 coup d'etats in the region where you had the CIA acting, or you had, you know, outright Marine invasions like in Dominican Republic in 65. For humanitarian purposes. That was the first invasion. Of course, to promote freedom and democracy and so, you know, so, so, so really what we see, you know, is, is, is a very violent type of intervention, which I think after sometime after the Vietnam war. And, and after, and after Chile, I have to say, and after the cool 73 in Chile. Because it really becomes more difficult to, it's not that it didn't happen. There were other, of course, there were other instances where it happened afterwards. But it became less acceptable. Yeah, in US public opinion to have this outright, you know, violent outburst.  So strategies has to already start changing Chile was was a moment, you know, is this year is the 50th anniversary of the coup against Salvador Allende, who was a democratically elected, you know, leader who happened to be from the left. But what he was trying to do was, you know, a program that basically, you know, increase access to housing, you know, democratized health care education, land reform, all these things that have been the historic needs of Latin America. This is not extra extraordinarily revolutionary was revolutionary in the sense that you know you, you didn't have this before now you have somebody with the guts to do it.  It wasn't a revolution in the sense that you were, you know, you were you were the state was going to expropriate everything and take over all the means of production. It wasn't that it was, you know, was a transformer social transformer. They wouldn't have it. And this and the attack against against Chile and against agenda was something that was where you combine both, you know, the military aspect of the violence with other tools from the, you know, the toolbox, the economic sanctions, you know, make the make the make the economy screen. Yeah. Well, we see the type of interventions that we've seen since the more time goes by, have taken that shape. See today, where we see the blockade against Venezuela that you know the sanctions against Nicaragua sanctions against Cuba.    So there's different modalities, different modalities, even in, you know, look out because you know, there's two, there's, I would say two very interesting, you know, modalities that that we often look at but there's an intervention in the religious sphere. Yes, missionaries and you know some that that don't have a religion don't really have a religious agenda they have, you know, a subversion agenda of another type. And there's interventions in the NGO sphere with with this idea where we're doing humanitarian work and we're doing new we're trying to help people out and basically there's their channeling money into, you know, subversion of democratically elected governments that are not lined up with the State Department's idea of what this region should be. So, so when we think about today, you know, today's moral doctrine, we first of all, we have to remember the vision is the same. Clearly. And I mean, it's day one, day one is the same, you know, we are seen as part of the US, you know, belong to us. And the other thing that you have to see is that, you know, the way you implement the doctrine changes.  This is it, you know, there's no, you know, this conciliatory type of discourse that then every so often comes out, only to have Bolton reverse that when the Trump administration say no, we're, we're, we're promoting them on route. The moral doctrine is alive and well. And it's from Miami. We're new high tech, you know, type of, of promotion. So that's, that's what you really, you know, that's what we really have nowadays. Now, Terry, one thing that I wanted to, to, to just show and to comment, you know, and that we, you know, we say that there are two currents in this region. We say that there is this, you know, idea of Monroe, and we from Venezuela, but from all other countries as well, you know, we contrast them with the ideas of Simone Boliva, which we think are important in the Bolivarianism that gave the name to the Bolivarian Revolution to, you know, the project that Hugo Chavez has moved forward, but other people also recognize themselves in the same project, because the project that what we were thought for what you know what what what his idea was was that this was me would be an independent region, a sovereign region. He fought for something that you know we, you know, he called the equilibrium of the universe. You do have forces that have to balance each other out that no one force should be able to, you know, over expand or impose itself over others, but that you have different poles or different, you know, regions, you know, sort of balancing their interest in order to have, which is the only way, as Boliva described it that you can achieve sustainable peace.  Now, in 1826, three years after the Monroe that Monroe doctrine was issued Boliva issued a call for a Congress the Panama Congress, where you know that these new republics would come in and would meet. And I just want to say, I just want to mention really quickly just a couple of the things that were on the agenda. So that you, so you get an idea of what the differences between Bolivarianism and this Monroeism. First, you know, there was a call for to to the nouns. Spain's imperialist attitude and to and to the nouns damage it had cost in the in, you know, in, in the Americas. By the way, the United States send representatives to this Congress, not because Boliva invited them but other, you know, Boliva respected the decision of the Colombian Congress at the time, who did invite them. The Colombian Congress at the time is what today is Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador. Yes, yes, it was one republic. Yeah, yeah. So so Boliva and Boliva at the time was president of Peru, because you know, in the process of independence kept going. Moving southward so he became president of Peru. And then you know that the government of Colombia took another decision. And this is important because you know it's often claimed that Boliva was some sort of, you know, outlandish dictator that ruled in and you can see that, despite the fact that he have founded Colombia, you know, he allowed Colombia to take its own decision in the sense Colombia this does invite the United States. And Henry Clay, who is who's the Secretary of State at the time, gives the instructions to the US representatives to go. And he says, there should be no denouncing of Spain. This crime committed. And you should also not. You know, one of the other as another point that Boliva was making in the Congress was calling for the independence of Cuba Puerto Rico, also the Canary Islands and also the Philippines. It was this movement of freedom, you know, of self determination, and the United States opposed. They had specific instructions to oppose this moment. One of the, one of the problems. And this is interesting but one of the problems that justify this decision by the United States was that they feared that any of these countries that would become independent could could fall into the danger of a slave revolution like in Haiti, and people from the south didn't want this. People from the southern United States. The United States. Yes. The United States didn't want this because you know they were still slave holders. So part of the reason. So, and why do I say this because I have been told, you know, we've been told for 200 years that the purpose of these doctrines and the purpose of these, you know, this US intervention in our region is because the ideas of freedom, democracy and equality and this bullshit. Because economics. It's nobody's social not true. Right. See, because you weren't willing to denounce the imperialism that, you know, in the region that and the crimes that were committed by Spain, you weren't willing to free the countries that was still on the subjection of, you know, of this empires. You weren't willing to free the slaves. So you can really talk about freedom, right, because the enslaved people and there was another point in believers agenda for the Congress was the total abolition of the of slavery in the Confederated States of the new republics. So when you see when you see what the two projects are, there's only one project that defends human rights is only one product defense self determination is only one project that defends freedom, and your right to choose your own form of government, and it's not Monroe's project. No. It's just with the Panama Congress and the US giving you know the instruction, not to denounce Spain, and with Bolivar wanting to continue the liberation of the Spanish colonies including the Philippines and, and the canary islands I mean that goes right back to what you were saying that the Spanish is just waiting for Spain to become so weak they could take the colonies for themselves which eventually they took the Philippines. I mean it's very. Oh, there you are. Okay you're back. I was saying what you know regarding the Panama Congress and the US instructions, not to denounce Spain and Bolivar wanting to denounce Spain and continue freeing the remaining Spanish colonies including the canary islands in the Philippines. And that goes right back to what you said earlier whether US was just waiting for Spain to be so weak it could just finish taking it. The last of the empire. Right, right, right, right. Because, and but it doesn't that's actually what happened you know when the Spanish American war that's that's precisely what's what goes on you know you have, you have the United States getting control of Puerto Rico of Cuba and also the Philippines. So then you have, and then you have that that allowed the US to have a country, you know complete map of you know resources from the Caribbean but also from the Pacific. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. The interest of the growth of the United States as a, you know so country as an empire. Yeah. Let me I know, I know you don't have much time left I wonder if there's just one thing I can have us talk about quickly. This, this being the 200th year. 200 anniversary of the Monroe direct in 2023. One of the things that and you know this because I've seen you throughout the hemispheres. Beginning in October, I would start I mean it started way before then but let's like October 2020 in Bolivia with the presidential elections there, and the return of the master power, and then going on to the Venezuelan National elections in December of 2020 and then all through 2021 we have elections in in Nicaragua and Ecuador in in Venezuela again in Honduras, and through 2022 in Chile and Colombia and Brazil. And I was, as were you, we were international election observers and many if not all of those elections. To me what I see today having looked back at 18 months of elections, the people south of the United States Latin America and the Caribbean voted principally for national sovereignty. And natural resource sovereignty, what your former Foreign Minister was so clear for the audience I was always so clear at stressing natural resource sovereignty along with with national sovereignty. And so people voted for those two things and I believe they also voted for governments that were proposing an economic system, beneficial to the majority of the citizens and that could be anything from, you know, social democratic to revolutionary it's a spectrum of economic solutions it's not anyone. But to me, that has really consolidated. I don't want to say liberation because that's been the people South the United States been fighting for that for 500 years, but it to me is almost as if the Monroe doctrine is being ended in the south so in Latin America and the Caribbean. The people are ending it on their own. And the United States does at this point is going to be reactionary, not proactive is going to be a reaction because the movement to absolve the Monroe doctrine from the hemisphere is coming from the south. And I think all these electoral results really, they don't just emphasize the change in government they emphasize what's happening on the ground with the people. They voted because these are constitutional changes through the electoral process they're not hot revolutions these are what the people have expressed at the polls that they want and mass across the hemisphere. Wish we could do it in the stage. Well the problem is that is that you know this is actually that's actually when the Monroe doctrine gets triggered. Whenever it's not the first time that we've expressed our will to do one thing or the other again you go going back to the example of Chile in 73. In 1970, people elected some other agenda to do precisely those things you know the to to to to to nationalize copper to, you know, to move forward in social programs and then the Monroe doctrine active itself and one of the most vicious, vicious ways and overthrew him and and set up a regional, you know, program called that you know the operation condor to basically destroy any other type of, you know, attempts as such in the region. What I think we should be what we have to be careful about is that you know whenever the you know Latin American the Caribbean reasserts itself is wherever is whenever you know that the doctrine goes out and becomes more more violent and more and more aggressive. So we have to be careful and see how you know how that is going to express itself in the next, you know, a couple of years or because like you said you know the region is now taking and again another turn towards the left. I mean you we saw what happened at the beginning of the 20th century or 21st century. I mean when you have this first wave when you know the people called up, you know the pink tide and everything. You know Chavez, Lula, Evo, Correa, you know you have this movement going, you know, towards a more towards a more like you said cutting off, you know from from from from US dependency, and the reaction was you know we, we hit Honduras and overthrow the government in Paraguay and then try to, you know, just suffocate Venezuela with sanctions and so, and it's been a vicious, you know, second decade and then you know third decade of the of the 21st century trying to file that off. So we have to be careful I think in the sense that you know it's going to generate a reaction. That's why I think at the end of the day, it is very important. Whatever you do in the United States and whatever people, you know, do in the United States to change that policy, because the change, we're going to have the same we're going to have the same, you know, perspective we're going to fight it out and we will lose some battles and we'll win others but we, we want to be careful of determination. What has to change is the way the US and the people in the US see themselves with, you know, within the framework of this, of this doctrine. That's why the US has to say, you know, this is not who we are, these are not our values. These are not what we stand for.  We have to look towards cooperation, we have to look towards solidarity, we have to look toward other types of values, not towards this crazy attempt of dominating Latin American and Caribbean resources in order to benefit, you know, just a small group in the United States. It's up to, I think that's where the responsibility comes in place for the movements and the people of the United States to, you know, struggle to change that policy and change that relationship, and you'll be surprised. You know, when you study Latin American history, you realize that a lot of movements, especially during the Cold War, which wasn't called in Latin America as a hot war in Latin America. But during that period called the Cold War, there were a lot of countries that there were a lot of movements that were not, you know, anti American, they were not, you know, they were not even communist. You know, it is very difficult to say, for example, that Akoma Arbings in 1954 was a communist leader in, you know, in Guatemala, but he was trying to do a land reform, and the United States blocked it. Every time that you see, you know, an attempt at justice for Latin America, the United States comes in and, you know, has sort of, you know, pushed that possibility out. So it has to, there has to be a point where the United States, the people in the United States say, this isn't what we stand for. This is not what we want. This is not where we want our resources to be spent. So we want a different type of relationship with, you know, one of cooperation and you'll be surprised how much, how much of a positive reaction you will receive from this continent. Well, I just want to, just for the audience, you know, the push, the pushback from the United States, the aggressiveness when you mentioned, you know, Arbens and Guatemala wanting land reform and now today, you see, like in the past month, the progressive narrative that they, well, and it's getting exceedingly more progressive from Mexico, from the president of Mexico, and this really strong anti-Omlo narrative coming out of the states now. Of course, you know, Mexico is getting ready to go into presidential elections. The timing is not, you know, because I'm was pretty much saying the same things he said since he was mayor of Mexico City, but going into the elections in 2024, you've gotten this really, really strong anti-Omlo narrative out of the states. You know, it's always something, there's always, always that pushback from the states to maintain control and maintain its model and its, its hegemony of the hemisphere and most of the global south, I would, the intervention in Africa is extraordinarily aggressive as well. Really, I am happy you still have faith in the American people to make change, because I think we do too. And I just want to tell the audience there's a really great forum that's going to be taking place the 28th and 29th in Washington to see 28th and 29th of April. It's a Latin American policy forum, and it's called Bearing 200 Years of Monroe Doctrine, and it's about, it'll be four panels in discussion of the panels are theme-based, not country-based. The theme panel is on sanction, so there'll be a very in-depth conversation on Venezuela attached to that, that panel. But it will talk about U.S. policy towards the region and also offer from Latin America and the Caribbean alternatives, what the people have created for themselves outside of the United States. It's an extraordinarily important time for that forum and a good opportunity if you can go to DC and physically attend. Terrific. Otherwise, it will be live stream. You can participate that way as well. You can register for the live or virtual event at americaspolicyforum.org, and I will put that in the chat. It's also in the program notes on the YouTube channel, so just give a plug for that, because it's a great time for people in the United States and outside the United States to exchange ideas and what's possible, what needs to happen to create a peaceful world. I would say so. So, Carlos, I know I kept you way over your allotted time. I apologize, sort of. I'm always so happy to have time, and you're so insightful, and everything you shared with us for this episode is just really so important for us all to hear and learn from, and I'm really grateful for that. Well, thank you for the opportunity. I like talking about this because it's a way of seeing the whole picture. You often don't get a chance to put everything in that framework, and I think it's really important so that we can really understand the story of the relationship between our regions, but yes, always happy to be here. Yeah, I'm happy. I'm happy you had time for the episode. So, and I love the Monroe versus Boulevard. Yeah, I mean that just is perfect. Yeah, yeah. Very, for people to understand, and the difference between the two is really paramount for the region. So thank you again and I just want to thank the audience. We had a really nice live turnout for you this evening. So, so for the audience, so you've been watching what the F is going on in Latin America and the Caribbean, we're a popular resistant broadcast you can find us every Thursday 730pm Eastern on YouTube live on the Convo couch code pink and popular resistance, YouTube channels post broadcast recordings can be found on Apple Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. So, so thank you again Carlos and for the audience we'll see you next Thursday. Take care.


My name is Sergeant Major Michael Assuncion, and this is why I serve. My first kid was born, I was just about 17 years old, or just over 17 years old, and life is hard. I mean, I'm born and raised in Hawaii, so cost of living is already ridiculous. The fact that I was still in high school didn't help whatsoever. It was hard. I was at a point where I was almost wanting to steal diapers just to be able to make it day to day and take care of my kid. I had advice from my neighbor who had said that he used to be in the military, and he saw that I was not in a good place for me, my family, my kids. So he advised me to go see a recruiter. He told me about some of the incentives and told me a little bit about what would help me and how the Army would help me, which was great, but really, I needed the income. I love the Army because everything that I have, I earned. It was all through hard work, sweat, dedication, time, so the Army has been very good to me and my family. The Army has given me a lot, given my family a lot. I definitely don't think that I would be where I am, or I would not be able to resource my family and take care of my family the way I could without the Army.


Hey y'all, what's up? Welcome to my channel. My name is Sonali. Today's video is a Black Friday haul and I'm so excited. I've been waiting to open these packages. I got home yesterday from all the travel in December. Lots of craziness, but I'm glad to be home for like a couple days and then I go back to Georgia for the holidays. We have clothes. We have one kitchen appliance that I'm really excited about and just beauty products too. So let's get started because I have a lot to unbox. I got a few things at Nordstrom. So we'll start with that first. I'm currently filming this on December 11th, I'm pretty sure. And it's been a while since Black Friday. So I'm honestly not even sure what was discounted and how much because especially on Nordstrom, I saw a couple things that were on sale and then the other things were like just things I wanted. But I saw this sweater and I thought it was really nice and I'm just like all about investing in like nicer quality sweaters. But I got it in an extra large. I did think it was gonna be a little bit thicker but it would be good for layering. So I'm gonna try it on. And if I don't like anything, like I can always return it, I'm hoping. Here's a beauty product that I'm restocking. This is the Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Finish Powder. I'm obsessed with this powder. It is the Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Powder and it literally makes you look like you don't have pores.  So very excited to be restocking that. Got another beauty product. This is one of my favorite lip liners from MAC. It's in the color Cork and it's just like a brown lip liner. I'll try to swatch it for you guys. I don't know if that will be focused. Let's see. Can you see that? It's just like the perfect lip liner for like a more pale pink liquid lip or a lipstick. So love this lip liner. I got these cozy pants. I saw them online and I was like, okay, those look like super freaking comfortable and they're just from the, what's it called? They're from the BP line. I got a large, I'm pretty sure like BP is like Nordstrom's, what's it called, brand, but they were on sale and I was like, okay, I can never have enough comfy pants. I don't know why, but they're like my favorite things to get into after a long day.  It's like the best feeling. Then I got this Beauty Blender pack.  So I thought that was a great deal.  I'm not sure how long it goes till, but for me I use like two different Beauty Blenders. So this was like the perfect little pack. So weird it like shipped with the hanger on it. This is a good American body suit and I've never purchased anything from the brand. I've always heard such good things about it. So I wanted to try it myself. So it's kind of like that snap buttons over here. It's really thick, it's really good quality and like I would hope so because it wasn't super cheap. I personally love body suits and I think they're great for layering. I do not know why I choose to film videos at this time because the sun always comes in like really strong and I don't have curtains. So I need to do something about it. But you have a big box and I cannot tell where this is from but I have a feeling it's shoes. These boots are from Sam Edelman. This is such a fancy box. I actually purchased them off of Amazon. I will try to link everything down below even if it's not on sale still. These have a really big discount on them and I have been like eyeing some boots like these for so long. So this is what they look like. I'm pretty sure they're waterproof. Yeah, so that's really cool. I'm very excited to style this. You guys know I love my neutrals so I got two neutral boots. These are more edgy and then the other neutral boots I'll show you guys are more of a Western style. While we're talking about boots I thought I would open the next pair which are Vince Camudos. I think two years ago I purchased some black booties from Vince Camuto. I'm not sure if it was this brand or another one but I feel like it's this one. They're stunning. They're everything. I love them. Oh my goodness, okay. So these are the booties. Like I said, they're definitely a more Western style. I live in Austin, Texas. I thought I'd be perfect. And also cowboy boots are just so on trend right now. I mean, not that these are cowboy boots but they definitely do like look like they fit into that trend. I wanted tall boots but I didn't want just like the normal ones that like go all the way up to your thighs. So I thought these would be a good thing to try out. And I'm pretty sure these have a really good discount too. This is a big one and it's probably one of my most exciting ones because I have wanted to purchase from this brand for a very long time. And I told myself I would wait till after I had my breast reduction to get some stuff from here. And it is aloe. I guess I got like a shirt and one like one PJ kind of step from them right after my breast reduction. But I did want to wait till Black Friday to go a little crazy. So that is what I did. First I got an aloe beanie. It has the brand name printed almost like those stony clover letters. You can never have enough beanies during the winter. I feel like I'm wearing the same one like every day but I love a beanie look. Then I got some aloe socks. I actually just wore my set active socks that I got. They're a Black Friday sale. I like bought way before Black Friday. Like they started so much earlier. So I put it in one of my vlogs if you guys are interested in a set active haul. But I got like socks like that from set active and they are so cute. I love styling those. So let's get into the apparel. Oh, guess I got some more aloe socks. First apparel piece is this bra. I honestly can't even tell what color this is. Like I kind of want to say it's like a very, very light purple or a white or like a weird white. I don't know. Let's see. What is it? Oh yeah, it's white. But it definitely looks like a purple, which is weird. But I feel like this would make the girls look pretty good. So I got that twist top thing or like the scrunchy thing. I made a Christmas wish list and ended up purchasing like half of things for myself on Black Friday. And one of the things I really wanted was sweatsets just like matching sweatsets. And I did have to buy a lot of these separately. Like it wasn't like a whole sweatset in one. But I guess that's better just because if you wanted to get different sizes, you could. This is just a gray zip up hoodie. Nothing too fancy about it. But I thought it would be a good staple. And for the sweater, I got the gray sweatshorts. It has like a little aloe sign right there. Super cute. I'm going to have to trial this on and make sure everything fits correctly. For my ice cream games on me, this also looks just purple. But it says it's white. Like what? Anyways, I thought this would be really cute. I've always wanted like a really fitted athletic jacket. And you know me, I had to get it in a neutral color. So this is contour jacket. And I think this is going to be perfect if I wanted to work out outside, which I don't see myself doing. But you know, hopefully an epiphany happens on December 31st. And I'm like, wow, I really want to go on the outdoor run. I really do need to get back into the health grind though, because I'm not feeling like amazing about myself lately, but I am going to have a lot more time for myself in the year, which I'm so, so excited and thankful for. And I'll tell you guys a little bit more about that very, very soon. Okay, so for the next thing I got, what's this color? Cocoa. Cocoa sweats. Look how cute. There's nothing fancy about it, but I feel like when it's all on and it's like matching, it's going to look so good. And it also has this like aloe silver thing. For those sweatpants, I got this sweatshirt. And obviously it's in the color Cocoa. It's the Acolyte crew neck pullover. And I do love like crew necks more than hoodies usually, just because I feel like hoodies are just so heavy on the back of my neck. And I'm like, this is the color ivory and it definitely looks like more wider than this purple looking thing. But we'll put it on and check it out. So this one, I got a hoodie just because I wanted to switch it up. I feel like I have a lot of nude like crew necks. So I wanted to just get a hoodie. And thank God this one is like not that heavy of a hood. So hopefully it won't do what I just said. It would probably do. And I think I got this one in a size XL because I just like love that baggy sweatset look. Then I got the same Acolyte sweatpants in ivory. I'm like obsessed with this ivory color though. I mean, I always am. I feel like I always like go for the neutrals and the whites and everything. Then I got an aloe scrunchie. Very cool. I'm just like obsessed with scrunchies lately because they don't leave creases in your hair, especially the silk ones. I'm gonna have to try that out and let you guys know. But the silk ones are so freaking good. And I always have to sleep in a silk scrunchie now. Aloe's whole website was like 20% off and maybe some things were like 30% off. And then with your order, I don't know how much you had to spend, but I got a little aloe tote bag for free. This was like just a gift that they added on. And I'm so excited about this because I went into the aloe store. I can't remember if it was like at the Grove or the one here in Austin, but I saw a girl walking out with one of these bags and I just thought everyone got one of these bags if you purchased anything. So I walked in there and I wanted to get the aloe hat. I have an aloe white trucker hat that I love. And I thought I was just gonna get this tote bag. I don't know why I thought that because this is a really cool, nice tote bag. So anyways, I ended up not getting the tote bag and I was so sad. I was like, why, why? But yeah, I get it now. You probably have to spend quite a bit of money to get the free tote. So that's everything I got from aloe. So freaking excited about all this stuff. And now on to the next box. I have no idea what this next box is. So, let's see. Oh, skins. Oh my goodness, they feel so soft and these came in just in time. I was like unpacking from my trips and got rid of literally half of my underwear drawer and my sock drawer because I just like want matching socks and underwear that actually fits me. I personally love a good full coverage underwear. So I just got a bunch of these and I really like high-waisted ones. So hopefully those are really comfortable. And then I got the infamous skims robe. I feel like the one that's like Sherpa is definitely more famous, but I wanted to get this one. Some of the colors weren't on sale, but this is one of the colors that was. And I just thought I would get me a skims robe while they had their sales going for Black Friday. It's very soft and very luxurious feeling. And speaking of super soft and luxurious feeling stuff, I splurged. I mean like I did a little damage to this Black Friday as you can tell, but this next package was probably the last Black Friday thing I did like at midnight. Like I was just like, should I do it? I've been hearing such good things about this brand. It's Black Friday, they're having a sale. So I did it. I got some stuff from EverJay. If you guys have never heard of this brand, they're known for the comfiest, softest PJs and I've never felt them before. So this is my first impression of the material. Are they really that soft? We'll see. Okay. Yeah. I mean, they're really soft.  I love this like, I don't even know what material this is. I wonder if I can see. Okay, it says 95% Modal and 5% Spandex. I don't really know what Modal is, but this is very, very soft. So first off, I got this sleep shirt, kind of like a sleep shirt dress thing. And it has this like baby pink outline with the heathered gray and has a little pocket and everything. Very, very cute. Next up is a romper and it is also in a gray color. It has like adjustable straps and it has these like cinches on the side, which I thought were really cute. And then the legs are just kind of like a jogger, kind of like a hair and pant almost. I feel like I would definitely wear those to just like run errands or do housework and stuff like that. And then I'm pretty sure this was on major sale. So that's why I got it because I don't usually get colors, but I got like a whole PJ set. It's the same material, very soft. And then I got the PJ pants. I do wish the band on these were a little bit thicker, but these ones are just like a flare, like normal PJ pants. And I love like the white outlining. I think it's so cute and super just like classy. The next thing I got is this ivory set. So it's just kind of like a long sleeve pullover type thing. The material on this is a bit different. I guess I would say it's more like a velour kind of feeling. And then these are the pants, same color. And then they look like this at the end. So it's not flare and not like super tight jogger. I am stoked about these PJs and I'm very excited to try them on. I thought it was only appropriate to come in the kitchen and show you guys the last thing I got from Black Friday since it is a kitchen appliance. So let's open this bad boy up. I've been needing one of these for a while now and I saw this when I was like researching and I thought it was like the coolest thing ever and I love me some kitchen gadgets. This was on pre-order for a while, but I guess on Black Friday they restocked. So I snagged one. Okay, here we go. I don't know if you can tell what it is by the packaging, but it is a juicer and it is a fancy schmancy juicer. We have all the little pieces, which I'm definitely gonna have to read the instructions on how to set all this up.  Let me just build this really quick and come back to show you guys what it looks like. This is the Nala J2 juicer. It's kinda heavy. I saw a bunch of videos of this juicer and I thought it was super cool because you don't have to like sit here and feed the juicer your vegetables, fruits and all that because a lot of juicers only have a spout, like kind of like this big. So you always have to like come up really small, but this one you literally put everything in at once. You can leave this alone for a little bit while it's juicing and then you can open up the spout and then the juice will just flow right out. Also has these containers. I've been looking for a juicer for a while now because I stupidly got rid of my other juicer when I was moving. I think I like accidentally put it in the giveaway pile, but honestly not really complaining because I'm really, really excited about this specific juicer. So I'm gonna be making a lot of green juice of new year. I really wanna try it out this weekend, but I don't know if I'll have time before I go back to Georgia, but hopefully I do. So that is it, my Black Friday haul. I guess I'll just close it out in the kitchen. I hope you guys enjoyed it. In case you guys are interested in gifting any of these products for your friends, family, or even yourself. So definitely go check that description box out. And if you're not already following me on Instagram, go ahead and do so so that you can see how I style all of the apparel that I just got. It is so underscore gnarly without the G and I will see y'all in my next video. Bye.


Definitely been a minute since I've been here on fours of seven for sure But we work in three-man tandem. It's a BRZ sandwich To be our Zeds to S-15s and Chelsea didn't know if it's in the mix What's up everybody? I'm Evil Rabbit. We are here on fours of motorsports seven It's been a minute since I've been on motorsports seven just because I've been doing a lot of project cars and stuff like that So we are here today to get some tandas with some random So we're gonna throw it down in Probably maybe an open drift session just to shake off the bugs and try and get my wheel to feel right I did notice that there was a bit of a change when I updated my wheel So I'm not sure if maybe fours have changed or if maybe just the wheel update We're gonna be ripping this S-15 that I've been playing around with here For today, but before we get started, I know a few of you guys have noticed on Twitter and Instagram that I teased about something so what I did tease about Was actually This right here. So if you guys noticed it looks very similar to the horn plate For an energy wheel. This is the prototype my brother and I have been working on So we've been trying to figure out how to make basically a horn delete plate that replicates the horn plate of an energy wheel With my logo in it. So we've been finalizing designs getting everything to Fit how I want it to to get basically that final product, which you see right here The evil rabbit of seven on the wheel. It basically Is a horn delete plate and I've been working with him to try to get it designed how I want it and Best way to have it possibly done so that we can Get a bunch of them here. Maybe give some way on the channel as well as Maybe put some up for you guys to buy if you want. So like I said, this was the prototype of it It came out a lot better on the actual Print space I did color in the with a paint pen on the white So like I said, these are coming very soon because would like to get a horn basically an evil rabbit Horn delete plate for your wheel setup for basically any 70 millimeter hub if you have like a gripper whale style Which has the hole here and here. We do have a setup for that as well We've been going through to make spacer rings and everything to basically be able to give them as a complete set So that everybody can put one of these on their wheel if they want So we're gonna get into the game do a little slide have a little fun with the s15 and well Basically see if we can get back to it here on fours and more sports seven So we are gonna try to find a multiplayer session here for today. We are gonna be running our normal h-pattern shifter with We're gonna get our Gonna get our screens turned on there We go we got our drift dash on and we're gonna see if we can find a decent open drift meetup Gonna get our gloves on for the Alcaterra suede wheel and I'm not sure Believe this is the one that I have saved For fours and seven so we're gonna see if we can't find maybe a good track to run Maple Valley short in the dry All right, I feel like we can get down with this s15 here just my seat a little bit So if you guys watched fd round one Do you guys agree with the calls that were made do you disagree you guys like the new cars and stuff like that? I'd be very curious to know what you guys think down below about round one of fd as well Let me know what you guys think is this horn delete plates Do you guys like them? Do you think you would be interested in having one? I'd be very curious to know don't think about giving some away on the channel as well as putting them up for People to buy if they want But they're really cool. It gets rid of the you know the actual Area where you would have a horn if most of us don't run horns on our sim rig So it kind of it replicates that horn ring that you would put on there So it's kind of a cool additive makes my wheel look, you know a little bit nicer from in my aspect So we're gonna join in We're gonna go shred this See how this works Hopefully Hopefully the cobwebs are not too bad right now Once we decide to load in Like I said, I've been working on this s15 a little bit kind of working the bugs on it And uh kind of liking the way the s15 runs so Definitely thinking about switching up some chassis here. Yep. All right, we are good We're just gonna go but we are in the wrong preset We are definitely in the wrong preset. There we go. Let's kick it in We were in the wrong steering little preset I was on my preset for uh project cars 2 that would have been really bad So like I said, the wheel does feel a little bit different to me. It felt a lot lighter So I've adjusted my feedback settings on my actual wheel And I'm not sure if maybe that was just the firmware update that I did on my wheel That caused it to feel that way Or if maybe it was an update With the game That I missed But this s15 is getting down Just a little grass drop. We're good We're good Try to throw us in Why is my smoke? What happened there? Please tell me you saw that smoke just get all crazy weird on me It was clutch kick it in made a little e-brake Man, it's definitely on the controller. You can tell I'm gonna try enough throw it in with him though There we go. Oh too much grass too much grass in the front Front tires of this car does not like grass We're able to save it though For all you guys that were to ask him how I used to run sequential to mimic a dog box. I run an h pattern for you today I think we're just going to oh Sorry my dude Oh I'm trying to get in with these guys. It was a really bad initiation That's better. Definitely been a minute since I've been here on fours of seven for sure But we're working three man tandem. It's a BRZ sandwich To be our zeds Two s-15s And Chelsea didn't know if it's in the mix. Oh, this is getting rowdy now that Chelsea's in here So I was in We may switch up to the sda vet here as well Boy S-15 bought it ow Sorry, man I think this s-15 is not set up the best for this track that man's in the middle We got to know if we're banging on our door. Okay We've got a fleet of cars behind us though. Oh too much grass love Is that a Porsche? Is that a melzee? Wrong color.  All right, let's go I think we're gonna switch up to the vet As we die Back to pits. Let's bust out the sda vet So definitely been a minute since I've been drifting here on Forza Motorsport 7 And the last time I drifted on 7 was actually ssr round 5 The long beach round that I did in ssr. I think it was the last time I've been on Forza drifting So it's definitely been a few It's definitely got to shake the cowwebs off a little bit and uh Get back into the game A little more So now we're gonna go Bust out that 667 horsepower Bumped it up one didn't want that 666 ESDA usual suspects vet stratton Chevrolet on the side Oh my cars On all the cars Is that Koenigsegg? Oh, this is bad What are we all gonna go unghosted? What's a Koenigsegg doing? Please tell me he's not ramming He is Or maybe he's not maybe starting to this is just to feel the cars up here A little more comfortable in the vet With good reason this vet is definitely been tuned Way more than the s15 has been that I spent so much more seat time in this vet Than that s15 Oh the only better car that I spent I think a little more seat time on Might be my fc There's just so much cars up here What are we doing guys? Oh my gosh online hoppers Right here for you for the Marsport 7 That was a break check Oh, yeah Your ratio is almost perfect for this track with this vet Go Yep much more comfortable in the car Oh, thank you guys you lost it Grass not my friend Oh force me back So strong Oh my what is going on here? Forza 7 everybody This is not like rumble strips Oh as I say they go on two more Oh grass I probably tried following his line and his line was very short Oh, I know that car said nexie or however to say his name in japan Boy, okay. Hi Oh my Lexi I think Crack me a robo. Oh my gosh. Where you hi hi You just tried to throw yourself deep in and that was not a Not a good choice by him Whoo so I want to kick myself back into force more sport 7 drifting and It's one hell of a way to do it Oh rotate We gotta settle down for a minute gain our composure For the That first turn See denofa That was a good entry I bet it wasn't behind somebody Just roasting the tires and forth off the clutch My man lost it around him See that I grabbed my e-brake like it was my shifter I went to like push forward on my e-brake to downshift It's not the right thing to do Wait for somebody Wait for some of these guys Oh boy, we got a lambo in the mix Initiating in So if he's gonna lose it Thought he was gonna lose it, but he saved it I should round it by Mustangs Somebody's gonna do a Mustang thing and it's him Mustangs doing Mustang things Come on man Don't do Mustang things don't pull up I'm not having a calm down Really? He's just bumping me everywhere You don't like Chevy's Do Mustang guys want to be Want to be Tannins together That's too much angle Definitely need to uh Get back into force and 7 drifting Maybe do some online sessions Maybe run the long beach session With subscribers and stuff like that So you guys want to do Some online open basically drift sessions here on force and 7 Let me know To be very Hinched to do some more Open drift lobbies and stuff like that Here in the future I didn't think I was gonna get that But we did We good Ain't nothing but a thing So as always you guys don't want to follow me on facebook and twitch I don't use twitch much anymore facebook Instagram and twitter All of it are found in the description box below Do appreciate all the support if you guys are not a subscriber Do tap the subscribe button I do appreciate all the support from you guys As always I thank you guys for watching I'm gonna finish this turn I'll be in my rabbit And I will see you guys The next time Just pegged red line Go handbrake I'll left foot brake Oh So Just a boop We good


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What's good y'all Chris? I'm jassescasebrakes.com doing 21 22 upper deck SP authentic hockey hobby four box break to random team number two number one from the First four boxes of a case Already done first break of the day. Now we have our second four box break from this case I've got our fresh dice in our list so two random teams all 32 teams in so from Jessica down to Jessica grab the last four of the Last legit spots and then we double it again Jessica down to Jessica our 32 spots and our 32 teams from the Ducks down to the Jets Let's randomize dice roll for both. Good luck four and three seven times Let's do it Thanks again y'all one two three four five six and Seven seventh and final time seven times seven times Jessica down to Ryan and seven times for the teams. Good luck one two three four five six and Seven seventh and final time here for the teams From the Boston Bruins down to the Hurricanes Let's look at the first half So Jessica has Boston Detroit Red Wings and the Coyotes Robert with the Blues Steve Birch with the Blackhawk Jessica with the Kings Brian with the Sharks Steve with the Oilers Jessica with the Canadians Douglas with the Golden Knights Jessica with the Ducks Steve with the Islanders Ryan with the Kraken Steve with the Panthers Jessica with the Avalanche Jose Junior with the New Jersey Devils second half of our teams Douglas with the Penguins Jessica with the Senators Predators Rangers Flyers Jets and Wild Ryan with the Capitals Jose Junior with the Blue Jackets Ryan with the Lightning Jessica with the Flames and Canucks Robert with the Maple Leafs Jessica with the Stars and Ryan the Sabres and Hurricanes All right, we'll pause the video. We'll see if there's any trade chatter But when we come back we got another four box of SP authentic coming up be right back All right, we're back. No trade chatter. So let's just do the dang thing Maple Leafs are beating the Lightning six to one. So we turned on to a bit more of an exciting game 302 left Rangers Devils Rangers lead 3-1 the third period Already had some OT hockey on Monday with the Kings So let's see something a little more exciting. Let's switch screens real quick while this prints out So I've got three stacks of form. I Got on my dice here So the way I'll do it one and two will be the left stack three and four will be the middle stack Five and six will be the right stack. All right our dice roll. Good. Look It is six So Stack on the right the X is all from the same case. I'll show real quick. We'll grab these put them back on our locker and To random team number three of SP authentic already on the site to random teams $60 a spot all card ship and a four-box SP offense right here our right stack To random team each of two Jessica and the ducks Don't see a lot of Jessica on the sheet Grand opening grand closing Jessica down to the Jets All right Let's see if the devil's gonna be get back into this need to score two less than two minutes to see if the range can hold on All right, let's rock and roll first of four boxes. Thanks again everyone. Good. Look a Couple of redemptions in our first break on a nice patch auto out of 100 makes a little three-color patch In our first break, let's see what we can get here next four boxes from this case Two sign of the times one current One sign of the times 90s edition SP authentic just a beauty really and so far so good with our method our method of praising the boxes and the products of the packs So let's keep it going Nice die cuts a nice low numbered stuff that he saw Some dual rookies out of 25. We'd love to get some more of those. Are you a little bit lower? If not in this break, you know, hey, like I said, we got two more breaks that we do from this case random teams three and random teams four We'll be the last eight boxes the second half. I think it's gonna be ballgame here Rangers are gonna win this one 17 seconds so the Rangers will win most likely three to one We'll see how how much the idea Who's by how much Like 15 minutes left in the third period, but let's get the box one of this break. Good luck, everyone Jeff Petrie pageantry Zach Jones top rookies Tuesdaysaurus Nashville goalie Nashville and Jessica and a blue die cut. There's a non numbered but Nick Suzuki from Montreal Once again, Jessica All cards ship here. So any cards that don't get sleep atop a little will be shipped will be toppled by our sorting team The quid use pageantry.  It's limited Tyler Bertuzzi 12 out of 99 first parallel of the break going to the Detroit Red Wings and Jessica one of our last spot mojo's Top workies Jake neighbors There's our first auto gonna be Brett Lee said a future watch auto 333 out of 499 for the Washington capitals and Ryan nice on card auto True leaders John Tavares. He's got a goal today for the Leafs at least one. I mean may have a little bit more now Got a pageantry She didn't have time to go to Varnan Tara Vane excuse me Top rookie Seth Jarvis She's Bergeron pageantry Nathan McKinnon and the die cut Wow, that's a nice one there. How about the goat Wayne Gretzky upper deck? authentic autograph Kings edition that's going to Jessica nice Look at that Wayne Gretzky Kings Edition auto Very nice Jessica Congrats Lucas Raymond one of our two big rookies for the Red Wings and the top rookies of Wyatt Kalinick Kalinook for the Chicago Blackhawks and Steve Now Lucas Raymond One more go into the Red Wings and Jessica and another Kings out of the Kings box here Rasmus Kupari Autograph future watch auto 631 out of 999 Center for the case One more for Jessica Tim Stutzel pageantry and a true leaders marked stone What a box what a first box that was of that this four box break here Yeah, we have some playoff hockey going on obviously right now with the playoff basketball going on to revolution basketball eight spots away two random teams each Per spots nice stuff in there Full eight box in our case do it box to pageantry Patrick came to from the top rookies Jack Hughes He's a second year Jack Hughes on the spectrum FX for the New Jersey Devils going to Jose, Jr non-numbered sp top rookies Joe Ballino blue Another one for the Red Wings another one for Jessica Another one on a 99 limited future watch of justice a new one five out of 99 goalkeeper for the avalanche Colorado and Jessica one of those last spot mojo's five out of 99 and another Lucas Raymond sp top rookies for Jessica and the Red Wings to your one spectrum FX future watch for Jesse the Owen for the Canadians And a true leaders Ryan gets a lot of last card in that stack pageantry rookie got a Quentin bifill top rookie For the Kings one more for Jessica and the Kings. I got a redemption here SP authentic 0102 retro auto number to 99 of Troy Terry First auto of this box will take a quick peek at our checklist make sure Troy Terry's gonna go to the Anaheim ducks Going to you Jessica first redemption of this break up to in the last one, but Troy Terry 0102 retro number to 99 going to And I true leaders Ryan O'Reilly blue non-numbered Bologna top rookie True leaders Ryan O'Reilly and our second auto this box Tanner. You know Nashville Predators Going to Jessica 399 out of 999 on the future watch auto The pageantry is a marked stone. All right box three Here's for posterity sake.   I don't think so Well, sorry y'all one sec. All right, just the cable one time Turn this off unplug this All right Give me a second here. I think I'm gonna need Jason's help on this one Started to fall and I got it on my leg, but I and now it's stuck. I took the cable Oh, it's probably just disconnected it. Yeah, I see it happened once and Joe helped me for like a few months ago That's what it is Hey, here we go. Hey, how's it going? We're good. Thank you Jason Don't know what I would do without the best people in the hobby helping me out. Sorry about that again y'all Nothing moved. This is still box three. I was taking it out of OBS cameras. Good. 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That's not for the Buffalo Sabres Going to go to Ryan 298 499 on the future watch auto Steven Stomkos and a markstone true leaders one more true leaders Markstone six to one here. Geez Louise. All right last box Like I said to random team number three on the site right now for the SP authentic hockey four box all card ship The whitening they're coming back Six to two here with 722 left You imagine Four more rolls And not even seven and a half Let's do it folks last box here. Good luck. Thanks again Ross Colton SP top rookie Ryan O'Reilly spectrum FX and a Matthew Cotcher die cut The Ryan O'Reilly for the blues on the spectrum Going to go to Rob Runkle Alex Barbou a SP top rookie To the Peter star Peterson for the stars future watch 543 out of 999 for the Dallas stars Dallas going to Jessica True leaders Connor McDavid Auto coming up Gonna be cow foot future watch auto 372 out of 999 for the lightning We're playing right now.  You haven't seen one of these green ones yet, but Alex Alex In the capitals going to go to Ryan All we got a fight gloves are off Very nice true leaders blue Logan Couture Cole Caulfield the top rookies for the canadiens That's going to Jessica True leaders blue Logan Couture going to the sharks by the by when a Ryan What's going on my man? It's going on Justin Last auto here Alexander Barbanov one more for the San Jose sharks upper deck authentic old school shark here One more for Ryan Last auto of this break I'm not under whatever Justin You know that Anton Liddell top rookies last few cards That one more auto actually Jacob Bryson for the savers autograph future watch 90 Out of 99 one more for the Buffalo Sabres another auto heading over to Ryan Got a goalkeeper now. We got a defenseman 90 out of 99 Jacob Bryson Ryan O'Rourke and Dylan Orkin Ryan O'Reilly Here we go another nice but another nice break here. Let's go to the big one here from the first box Wayne Gretzky upper deck authentic auto on car beautiful over one for Jessica and the kinks. Thanks again everyone Number three on the site upper deck SP authentic two random teams each. Thanks again, jassescasebreaks.com. Bye.