# Washington’s return to Latin America Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/washington-s-return-to-latin-america Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/washington-s-return-to-latin-america.md Podcast: [The EI Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386) Published: 2026-04-09T10:42:45+00:00 Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8885151 Audio file: https://audioboom.com/posts/8885151.mp3?modified=1775731608&sid=5029938&source=rss Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-ei-podcast-916386/episodes/washington-s-return-to-latin-america Duration seconds: 3331 ## Resource 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 ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-ei-podcast-916386/episodes/washington-s-return-to-latin-america/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386/washington-s-return-to-latin-america.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.