On Trump and Rubio, Venezuela and Cuba.

Writer Juan David Rojas talks to Alex and Lee about the abduction of Maduro, what next for Venezuela, and Trump's "hemispheric" foreign policy.

• What is the Trump administration's policy toward Latin America?

• Is the attack on Venezuela a war for oil? Or a war vs 'narcoterrorism'?

• What are the internal divisions in Venezuela, and could it fall into civil war?

• What are the armed groups in the country?

• Who's calling the shots in Washington: neocons or paleocons?

• Is the US open-border policy for Cubans going to cause a rift within the Trump admin?

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Links:

• How Maduro Sealed His Own Fate, Juan David Rojas, Compact

• Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy: Goodbye, Liberal International Order; Hello, Radical Right, Lee Jones, American Affairs (forthcoming)

• The Venezuelan Predicament: Oil & Power in Caracas, Washington and Miami, Juan David Rojas, American Affairs (forthcoming)

• Trump’s Venezuela Actions Are About More Than Oil, Matt Huber, Jacobin