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As the United States points its biggest warship at Venezuela, what is the White House trying to achieve in Caracas? How does it fit into the Trump administration’s broader Latin America policy? And how is the region responding? Host Ravi Agrawal sits down with scholar Oliver Stuenkel for answers.
Stuenkel is a leading Latin America scholar and senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Plus Ravi’s One Thing on COP30.
FP Columnists: 5 Novelists on Their Favorite Climate Fiction
Oliver Stuenkel and Adrian Feinberg: Milei’s Midterm Miracle
Matthew Kroenig: Trump Should Oust Maduro
Carlos Ruiz-Hernández: The Nostalgic Delusion of 1989
Philip A. Berry: The Use and Abuse of ‘Narco-Terrorism’
John Haltiwanger: Latin America’s Disjointed Reaction to Trump’s Drug Boat War
Geoff Ramsey: What’s the U.S. Endgame in Venezuela?
Ryan C. Berg: Toppling Maduro Without Boots on the Ground
Catherine Osborn: How Migration Became a U.S. Foreign-Policy Priority
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