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What the 'Donroe Doctrine' means for Latin America

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🗓️ 7 June 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The Trump administration is supercharging its aggression toward Latin America. What does the 'Donroe Doctrine' mean for the Western Hemisphere, and could it backfire for the U.S.? 

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0:00.0

It's considered this where every day we go deep on one big news story.

0:04.8

The Trump administration is aggressively intervening in the affairs of Latin America.

0:11.6

The U.S. has captured Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro.

0:16.2

Venezuela's longtime leader is sitting in a New York jail cell after U.S. forces hold him out of his

0:21.8

bedroom in Caracas in January on drug charges. Expats in Miami celebrated. Across the region,

0:29.8

President Trump is sending in the U.S. military using threats and sanctions to try to get what he

0:35.9

wants, like in Cuba. He wants the communist government to fall.

0:40.2

This year he started blocking almost all shipments of oil to the island nation. Its economy is

0:45.6

collapsing. And in the seas surrounding Latin America, the U.S. has killed hundreds of people by

0:52.0

bombing small boats, it says, are carrying drugs,

0:55.2

though it's offered no proof.

0:56.9

And PR recently reported on fishermen, who said a U.S. flagged vessel, attacked them at sea.

1:02.2

The guys say, Captain, look, two drones are coming at us.

1:06.4

One then ripped through the captain's cabin.

1:08.9

Boom, it exploded.

1:12.7

The cabin filled with flames, he said.

1:15.8

Very soon we're going to start doing it on land, too.

1:18.4

It's already bombed suspected drug cartels in Ecuador

1:21.4

and is reportedly pressuring Guatemala and Mexico

1:24.3

to allow the U.S. military in, too.

1:27.3

All of this under the umbrella of what

1:29.4

Donald Trump has called the Don Roe doctrine, a play on the Monroe Doctrine, a foreign policy

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