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Which part? The sanctions part or the hegemon part? Here is a list of US sanctions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_sanctions

I love this part specifically: "Reasons cited for sanctions includes Venezuela's poor human rights record", pretty much for all of them.

And then let's look at US's involvements in Latin America:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

Funnily enough, the CIA overthrew Iran's democratically elected government in 1953, only to sanction them when they are not willing to be US's pawns anymore.

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthr...