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"Rubio's Ideological Project": What's Driving Trump's Campaign Against Venezuela?

2025-10-27 News & Politics
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Escalating US Military Threats Against Venezuela and Regional Drug Strike Policy

Understand how the deployment of the USS Ford and targeted naval strikes align with emerging ideological foreign policy agendas targeting Venezuela and Colombia.

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  • The Trump administration escalated regional tensions with naval strikes killing dozens and deploying the USS Gerald R. Ford to the Caribbean.
  • Critics accuse key figures, particularly Marco Rubio, of using drug trafficking as a pretext for an ideological campaign against the Venezuelan government.
  • The session explores judicial concerns over extrajudicial killings and the emerging "Trumpist coalition" influencing Latin American policy.

This segment analyzes escalating military posture against Venezuela following numerous US naval strikes on vessels in the Caribbean and Pacific. Expert Alejandro Velasco explains the political motivations driving these actions, framing them as ideological moves rather than pure counter-narcotics operations.

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Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt The Trump administration has now killed at least 43 people in 10 strikes against so-called drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean. The threat of war against Venezuela and the surrounding region is growing as the Pentagon deploys the world's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, to the Caribbean. Alejandro Velasco, associate professor at New York University, says the Latin American policy is "primarily Marco Rubio's ideological project," motivated by a desire to oust the government of Venezuela and weaken the allied government of Cuba. Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe

Top Comments (10)

@user-em6ie2be7x 2025-10-27

Trump and Kegbreath should be extradited to Venezuela on murder charges.

124 15 replies
@PlaceStillMatters 2025-10-27

“No more foreign wars.” I seem to remember something about this campaign promise. 🤔 🧐 🤨

121 10 replies
@jasantiagostudio 2025-10-27

So unfair that the U.S. wants to start a war in South America for oil. There is no evidence that people on these boats are drug traffickers. This is murder!

117 30 replies
@Kikieyes-RES 2025-10-27

When is this nightmare going to stop

105 20 replies
@karinbiow9110 2025-10-27

This is horrifying. The rest of the world should sanction the US. We are a rogue state now.

91 5 replies
@dinkyduck53 2025-10-27

If you want to know why Trump is threatening war with Venezuela look at the oil. Chavez limited the amount the oil companies from the States could make from oil. Now Trump wants the profits back. Follow the money, simple as that.

71 13 replies
@machopicchu 2025-10-27

Trump is bearing false witness against Venisula and coveting their oil reserves.

65 2 replies
@dropdeadinc.customtattoo2537 2025-10-27

Obviously the US government hasn't learned that as long as the United States has the most illicit drug user's in the world By Far then there's nothing they can really do to "win the war on drugs"

47 7 replies
@irvingkurlinski 2025-10-27

"We're going to kill them". I "hate my enemies". A stable genius, like Mike Johnson, and John Roberts.

24 4 replies
@culturaypasion 2025-10-28

The US stablishment is not just at war with Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Sudan, Syria, Libya, Serbia, Palestine, Lebanon, Grenada, Haiti, Nicaragua, Greenland, Canada and are fabricating yet MORE WARS in Ukraine and now Venezuela... they are ALSO AT WAR WITH THEIR OWN PEOPLE, making them poorer so they can get a continuous supply of cannon fodder for their corporate wars. This war is sponsored by Chevron and Exxon and the other biggies too.

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