Jason Marzak

Kimberly, great to be on the show.

Well, my reaction was this is a seismic moment for Venezuela.

And it's a moment that the Venezuelan people had long hoped for.

The Nicolas Maduro regime has been one that's put Venezuela on an incredible downward trajectory.

Everything from the economy, 500% inflation, 90% of the people that live below the poverty line, but as well, of course, the political repression, the hundreds of people that are

locked up in Venezuelan jails, including wrongfully detained Americans.

Well, the Trump administration foreign policy is a shift from what we've seen in previous administrations.

And why?

Well, every year there's a new national security strategy that gets put out.

And the national security strategy of this new administration was released toward the end of last year.

And that has a heavy emphasis on the Western Hemisphere.

Previous national security strategies, including the first Trump administration,

He gave the hemisphere maybe a page, maybe a few paragraphs, but the Western hemisphere focused more prominently in this strategy than any other region of the world.

It was like four pages, right?

It was four pages, Kimberly.

And what was interesting about that strategy, those four pages, is it didn't call out one specific country, unlike even the Trump administration's first national security strategy.

But it called out a broader strategy for the region, which was about expanding our partners and listing new partners and doing so focused on things like counter-narcotics.

reducing the influence of foreign adversaries, but also a heavy emphasis on how to accelerate U.S.

investment in the hemisphere.

That's important, Kimberly, because over the last couple decades, specifically the last 10 years,