Washington’s Path to Displacing Rivals in Post-Maduro Venezuela
With Maduro removed, the U.S. faces the difficult task of limiting the influence of China, Russia and Iran without triggering instability.
The removal of Nicolás Maduro marks a pivotal inflection point in U.S. foreign policy toward the Western Hemisphere. As articulated in the latest U.S. National Security Strategy, Washington is emphasizing the region as a core theater of competition, denying its extra-hemispheric rivals the ability to entrench economic, military, or political influence, and treating these issues as a matter directly tied to homeland security. For nearly a quarter century, Venezuela served as a test case for how extra-hemispheric powers could exploit declining U.S. engagement to expand their...
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