The United States has had a terrible history in Latin America, and no Washington insider should know this history better than Secretary of State Marco Rubio. By invading Venezuela, President Trump just lit America’s eternal exploding cigar. His message to the world: Venezuela is ours until we say so, just like the rest of Latin America. As one of Florida’s U.S. senators, Rubio represented millions of Latin American immigrants who had fled civil wars sparked by the U.S. in one way or another. Yet he’s Trumpworld’s biggest cheerleader for Latin American regime change, helping torpedo the president’s anti-interventionist campaign promise as if it were a narco boat off the South American coast.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 05, 2026 12:31 UTC