The president wants "a much more transactional relationship" in the Western Hemisphere, Latin American expert Christopher Sabatini tells Newsweek.

Trump’s announcement that increased action will be taken comes as the United States’ military presence continues to build in the Caribbean

President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that the United States is preparing to take new action against alleged drug trafficking networks in Venezuela, telling service members during a Thanksgiving call that efforts for strikes in land will be starting “very soon.

U.S. officials’ messaging about the country has dovetailed with the administration’s shifting policy priorities, a Miami Herald analysis shows.

PALM BEACH, United States, Nov 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - US President Donald Trump said Thursday that efforts to halt Venezuelan drug trafficking "by land" would begin "very soon," further ratcheting up tensions with Caracas, which claims the anti-drug campaign aims at regime change.

DONALD Trump has promised US military will start land operations in Venezuela, after US says drug cartels are on par with terrorist groups Al Qaeda and Hamas. The Don’s war on drugs has

The pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández, who served less than two years of a 45-year sentence for drug trafficking, comes as Trump threatens war on Venezuela over “narcoterrorism.”

The administration’s lethal strikes on suspected traffickers may compromise, not advance, America’s battle against cartels.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday labeled President Trump’s pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez as “truly disgustingly” as the administration receives

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro is running out of options to step down and leave his country under U.S.-guaranteed safe passage, following a short call with U.S. President Donald Trump last month where Trump refused a series of requests from the Venezuelan leader,