# Trump's New Strategy for Latin America: Venezuela, Cuba, & the 'Donroe Doctrine' | Brian Winter Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-forces-203667/trump-s-new-strategy-for-latin-america-venezuela-cuba-the-donroe-doctrine-brian-winter Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-forces-203667/trump-s-new-strategy-for-latin-america-venezuela-cuba-the-donroe-doctrine-brian-winter.md Podcast: [Hidden Forces](https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-forces-203667) Published: 2026-01-08T08:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/venezuela-cuba-donroe-doctrine-brian-winter Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/hiddenforces/Ep.457_HYP_Ep.11_Brian_Winter_Main_Feed_teaser_1-12-26.mp3?dest-id=457899 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hidden-forces-203667/episodes/trump-s-new-strategy-for-latin-america-venezuela-cuba-the-donroe-doctrine-brian-winter Duration seconds: 5320 ## Resource Episode 456 is the eleventh installment in the Hundred Year Pivot podcast series. In it, Demetri Kofinas and Grant Williams speak with the editor-in-chief of Americas Quarterly, Brian Winter. He's an expert on Latin America, having lived and worked in Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico, and possesses a deep understanding of the region's politics, economics, and security dynamics. The three of them begin their conversation discussing the Trump administration's almost cinematic removal of Nicolás Maduro from power in Venezuela. They speculate about who is currently in charge of the country, the implications of Maduro's exit for Venezuela's economy and the region's geopolitics, the rising tide of right-wing political movements across Latin America, and how this operation fits into the Trump administration's broader initiatives as they have been conveyed in the new National Security Strategy. They also explore the rising tide of right-wing political movements across Latin America, the role of organized crime in driving political change, how demographic shifts and artificial intelligence might reshape the region's future, and the unique role that Trump's National security adviser and secretary of state Marco Rubio has played in shaping US foreign policy in Latin America and whether Cuba and its communist government is next on the administration's list of seemingly every-expanding targets. Subscribe to our premium content—including our premium feed, episode transcripts, and Intelligence Reports—by visiting HiddenForces.io/subscribe . If you'd like to join the conversation and become a member of the Hidden Forces Genius community—with benefits like Q&A calls with guests, exclusive research and analysis, in-person events, and dinners—you can also sign up on our subscriber page… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hidden-forces-203667/episodes/trump-s-new-strategy-for-latin-america-venezuela-cuba-the-donroe-doctrine-brian-winter/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-forces-203667/trump-s-new-strategy-for-latin-america-venezuela-cuba-the-donroe-doctrine-brian-winter.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.