Is Trump Angling for Regime Change in Venezuela?

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🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.5	Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policies Editor-in-Chief.
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1:10.8	Is the White House attempting regime change in Venezuela? Earlier this week,
1:16.3	the U.S. Navy's largest warship, the Gerald R. Ford, took up a new position in the
1:21.6	Caribbean after leaving the Middle East last month. It comes amid Washington's biggest military build-up in the region in decades.
1:30.5	In a moment, we will examine what the Trump administration wants to accomplish in Venezuela,
1:35.7	how that fits into his broader foreign policy, and also how Latin American countries are
1:41.8	responding. But first, my usual one thing. I've been keeping an eye on the
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