Is Trump about to go to war with Venezuela?
The United States has deployed 15,000 troops and sent warships to the Caribbean in the biggest military build-up there since the Cuban Missile Crisis. It follows months of deadly US strikes on boats from Venezuela it says are smuggling drugs. Today, Latin America expert Orlando Pérez from the University of North Texas on why Donald Trump is turning up the pressure on Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro and why toppling him won’t be easy. Featured: Orlando J. Pérez, Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas in Dallas
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The United States has deployed 15,000 troops and sent warships to the Caribbean in the biggest military build-up there since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
It follows months of deadly US strikes on boats from Venezuela it says are smuggling drugs.
Today, Latin America expert Orlando Pérez from the University of North Texas on why Donald Trump is turning up the pressure on Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro and why toppling him won’t be easy.
Featured:
Orlando J. Pérez, Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas in Dallas