Much Ado About Maduro (Much Ado About Maduro, Will Freeman – Council on Foreign Relations)

For President Donald Trump, Venezuela has become ground zero for his 21st-century corollary of the Monroe Doctrine—an experiment in power projection ostensibly motivated by a new war on drugs and rooted in the president’s belief that hemispheric dominance is a national security imperative. Trump has cast Nicolás Maduro as a “narco-terrorist” and illegitimate dictator, ordered U.S. special forces to destroy vessels allegedly ferrying cocaine northward to the United States, and positioned the largest constellation of American military assets in the Caribbean in decades.

Much Ado About Maduro | Council on Foreign Relations