Which Latin American narco-state will Trump topple next?
Americano
The Spectator
4 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Freddy Gray is joined by Joshua Trevino, Chief Transformation Officer at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and Senior Director of the Western Hemisphere Initiative at the America First Policy Institute. They discuss the complex history of so-called 'narco-states' and how they came to dominate vast parts of Latin America. Trump’s assault on Venezuela may prove to be the first of several military operations – which states could come next? And how significant has Marco Rubio been in shaping this policy priority?
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| 0:33.8 | Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics, power and prejudices. |
| 0:45.3 | It is 2025 and Donald Trump is president once again of the United States. |
| 0:51.9 | We will, of course, be following the moves of the Donald and his second |
| 0:55.8 | administration very closely. However, it won't just be politics for us this year. We'll also talk a lot |
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| 1:18.0 | Today we are going to be talking again about Venezuela, but not just Venezuela, |
| 1:24.3 | because while a lot of people are asking what comes after Maduro and what will the |
| 1:29.9 | regime in Caracas look like following this weekend's extraordinary American assault, the real |
| 1:38.2 | question for a lot of people is what's going to happen in Latin America more broadly. |
| 1:43.6 | And there's no better person to talk to about this |
| 1:45.7 | than Joshua Trevino, who has just written a very interesting article that's gone up on the National |
| 1:51.0 | Review. And Joshua, I'm going to read this out because it's quite a long title, but Joshua |
| 1:55.3 | Trudeau is the chief transformation officer at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and a senior director of the Western |
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