Venezuela Signals Trump’s New Vision for the Western Hemisphere

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🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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P.M. Edition for Jan. 5. President Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine” represents a big turn in U.S. geopolitical strategy. We talk with Geoff Ramsey, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and an expert on Latin America, about how other countries in the region could be feeling pressure from the U.S. Plus, Venezuela’s ousted leader Nicolás Maduro remained defiant during his first appearance in U.S. federal court. And why automakers are expecting a tough year ahead. Alex Ossola hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.4	Nicholas Maduro declares his innocence in his first appearance in front of a U.S. court.
0:44.3	Plus, the Trump administration's actions in Venezuela herald a new geopolitical strategy. I think we can safely say that the era of a more muscular approach to foreign policy in Latin America,
0:51.2	where the U.S. is willing to exert not just economic or diplomatic pressure,
0:54.3	but even military pressure to advance its interests, is here to stay, at least for now.
0:59.0	And why automakers are expecting this year to be a tough one.
1:03.0	It's Monday, January 5th.
1:05.0	I'm Alex O'Sullough for the Wall Street Journal.
1:06.9	This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that move the world today.
1:18.7	Osted Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro made his first appearance in front of a U.S. federal court today, where he pleaded not guilty to narco-trafficking charges.
1:28.2	Maduro said he was still the president of his country and that he was a prisoner of war who
1:32.5	had been kidnapped. The hearing was the start of a highly unusual legal battle for a foreign
1:37.5	leader in a U.S. court, and the prosecution and defense could spend years fighting over the
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