Washington’s return to Latin America

Following the capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro earlier this year, President Donald Trump has warned that Cuba is ‘next’. What exactly does he mean by that? Joseph Ledford, Fellow at the Hoover Institution, speaks to EI’s Jack Dickens about a new age of US interventionism in Latin America. Image: Protesters outside the White House following the arrest of Nicolás Maduro, January 2026. Credit: Alamy

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Washington’s return to Latin America is an episode from Engelsberg Ideas Podcast.

This episode is 55:31 long.

This episode was published on Apr 9, 2026.

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