The Trump Doctrine in Latin America

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🗓️ 21 October 2025

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The whole spectrum of Trump’s foreign policy is on display when it comes to South America: The US Navy is gathering off the coast of Venezuela, while the Treasury Department prepares to send tens of billions of dollars to Argentina. Guest: Brian Winter, editor-in-chief of Americas Quarterly. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.8	I'm not sure if you've been scouring any satellite imagery these days.
0:44.5	But if you were, and if you had honed in on the corner of the Caribbean between Cuba and Central America,
0:51.2	Brian Winter, the editor-in-chief of America's Quarterly, he can tell you what you'd find
0:56.3	there. Ships and sailors. Lots of them. Right now in the Southern Caribbean, we have by one estimate,
1:14.6	about 10% of the U.S. Navy right now, broadly speaking, in that area off of Venezuela's coast.
1:18.6	10%. That seems like a lot.
1:21.6	It's a lot.
1:22.6	You might think you know what these ships and sailors are up to.
1:26.6	After all, in the last few weeks, there's been one strike after another on small boats that
1:33.3	the U.S. government claims are smuggling drugs.
1:36.8	But Brian says, this is not all these military vessels are up to.
1:41.7	They're just too many of them.
1:43.9	It is the largest buildup of U.S. military
1:46.8	in this part of the world since the invasion of Panama in 1989. I mean, to me, this military
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