US Strengthens Its Influence in Latin America
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
The Monroe Doctrine is back, and the United States is making this clear with Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying, “This is our hemisphere—and President Trump will not allow our security to be threatened.”
We’ll discuss this topic and others, in this episode of Crossroads.
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| 0:00.0 | The Monroe Doctrine is back, or as President Donald Trump is calling it, the Donro Doctrine. |
| 0:06.0 | And the United States is making this abundantly clear, saying, this is our hemisphere. |
| 0:11.0 | Meanwhile, the decision on whether the President needs permission from Congress to levy tariffs is now in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court. |
| 0:19.0 | And on another topic, Minnesota Governor Tim |
| 0:21.5 | Wallace is dropping his bid for re-election amid criticism and investigations over these Somali |
| 0:27.4 | scammer rings. I'll be talking about these topics and a lot more today. And before we begin, |
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| 0:38.4 | I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigative reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to |
| 0:42.4 | Crossroads. |
| 0:49.3 | The Monroe Doctrine is fully back on. The United States is actually enforcing it now and going at it. |
| 0:56.4 | And what you're watching in Venezuela is just one small piece of probably what's to come. |
| 1:01.1 | The United States is also making it clear this is the new agenda, frankly. |
| 1:05.6 | Secretary of State Marco Ruby appeared in NBC News as Meet the Press saying, |
| 1:09.0 | this is our hemisphere and President Trump |
| 1:12.3 | will not allow our security to be threatened. The most immediate changes are the ones that are in |
| 1:17.0 | the national interest of the United States. That's why we're involved here because of how it |
| 1:20.9 | applies and has a direct impact on the United States. The first steps and the first steps are |
| 1:25.5 | securing what's in the national interest of the United States and also beneficial to the people of Venezuela. And those are the things that we're focused on right now. No more drug trafficking, no more Iran has a beloved presence there and no more using the oil industry to enrich all our adversaries around the world and not benefiting the people of Venezuela or, frankly, benefiting |
| 1:45.1 | the United States and the region. This is the Western Hemisphere. This is where we live, and we're not |
| 1:50.9 | going to allow the Western Hemisphere to be a base of operation for adversaries, competitors, |
| 1:55.1 | and rivals of the United States. Have specific oil companies? We also want to see that oil and the |
| 1:59.3 | proceeds from it. Now, just digging into this a bit when he says, no more drug trafficking. |
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