AOC says the US should apologize for its history of interventions in Latin America: 'It's very hard for us to move forward when there is this huge elephant in the room'

• Rep. Ocasio-Cortez said the US has to reckon with its history of interventions in Latin America.
• "The first element of it is just acknowledgement," the third-term congresswoman told The Guardian.
• Ocasio-Cortez was part of a congressional delegation that recently traveled to the region.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in a newly-published interview that the US government needed to apologize for its history of interventions in Latin America, arguing that such actions contributed to government instability in the region.