The United States' involvement in Latin America has been intensifying in ways we haven't seen in decades.

From Argentina to Colombia to Venezuela, the Trump administration is attempting to reshape the political landscape of Latin America.

Trump is propping up allies in the region and targeting his enemies.

This has left many wondering, what's next?

We've got U.S. warships, we've got troops, we've got threats of invasions.

So we brought Karen DeYoung and Samantha Schmidt, two of the post experts on Latin America,

into the studio to explain what is going on. Yeah, I think we're entering an era of really aggressive intervention

in the hemisphere in a way we haven't seen in a long time. From the newsroom of the Washington

Post, this is Post reports. I'm Kolby Ekowitz. It's Thursday, November 13th. Today, Karen and Sam join me to

unpack the latest developments in Latin America and how the Trump administration is pushing

the boundaries of our foreign relationships with three countries in particular, Venezuela,

Colombia and Argentina.

Karen, Sam, hello.

Hi.

I want to center our conversation today on the three countries that I just mentioned.

But let's first start with Venezuela, because I think that's probably what's top of mind for most people. You know, for months we've been hearing about these U.S.

strikes on boats off of its coast. These strikes have killed dozens of people. It's left people asking whether we should be bracing for something bigger, like a war. Where are things at right now?

What do we know about U.S. policy as it pertains to Venezuela

under President Nicholas Maduro? I think that the Trump administration has sort of gone

back and forth on starting out, we're going to negotiate with Venezuela. We want to get some

American detainees out of there. We want to deal with their oil. But it's really changed

sort of at the end of the summer where they said, that's it. We've had it with Maduro. He's an

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