Several other Latin American countries now sit squarely in Washington’s crosshairs.
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Conditions on the ground in Cuba are so grim that the Trump administration thinks Havana could fall without any US intervention.
The American operation in Venezuela was completely unprecedented. The outcome promises to be risky for Donald Trump, a Latin American expert explains.
Talk of regime change brings up uncomfortable memories of the chaos after the overthrow of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein.
The US attack on Venezuela highlights a shifting American foreign policy that dismisses a rules-based global order and focuses on economic interests and military might.
Months of preparation and intelligence gathering went into the mission to seize Venezuela’s president in Caracas.
The US intervention in Venezuela does not represent a break from past practice.
President Donald Trump has said the US will ‘run’ Venezuela until a ‘safe, proper and judicious transition’ can take place. But that still leaves many options.
The US capture of Nicolás Maduro opens a new era in international relations.
The operation in Venezuela has echoes of Panama in 1989. But in ordering President Maduro’s capture, Trump has broken with long-standing US policy in Latin America.
Listen to Pablo Uchoa, an expert in Venezuelan military scenario planning, on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
José Antonio Kast, who has run for the presidency several times, successfully seized on widespread dissatisfaction over issues like crime and immigration.
Venezuela relies on the black-market oil trade for a large chunk of its revenue. US enforcement actions may push down the price it can charge, further squeezing the country’s economy.
US forces have seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast, a move Caracas has called an ‘act of piracy’.
The Trump administration is reviving the Monroe Doctrine for Latin America. The aim: keeping China out and securing oil and resources for itself.
US intervention in Latin America could put China’s influence there in jeopardy.
Protestant churches’ growth in Latin America gets lots of attention, but another important shift is happening, too: people leaving organized religion altogether.
The Trump administration’s military strategy in Latin America breaches long-established legal rules and norms in three key ways.
The Trump administration deems the Venezuela-based Cartel de los Soles a terrorist organisation, but there are doubts over whether it actually exists.
Venezuela hopes the prospect of ‘another Iraq’ in Latin America serves as a deterrent against US intervention.
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