As the United States points its biggest warship at Venezuela, what is the White House trying to achieve in Caracas? How does it fit into the Trump administration’s broader Latin America policy? And how is the region responding? Host Ravi Agrawal sits down with scholar Oliver Stuenkel for answers.

Stuenkel is a leading Latin America scholar and senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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