Kimberly Adams

I'm Kimberly Adams.

Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where none of us is as smart as all of us.

So today we are going to dive into what's been happening in Venezuela and what that means for us here in the U.S.

as well as kind of the rest of the world.

In the wake of the U.S.

military actions in the country, including the capture of Venezuela's leader, Nicolas Maduro, we're left with a lot of questions about what all this means for the future of U.S.

foreign policy and the global economy.

So here to help us unpack this and get smart about it is Jason Marzak.

He's vice president and senior director at the Atlantic Council's Adrian Arsht Latin American Center.

Jason, welcome to the show.

What was your reaction when you started seeing the news about the capture of Nicolas Maduro over the weekend?

Can you sort of lay out why this moment matters in terms of the overall Trump administration foreign policy?

I do want to get back into that investment side of things, especially relative to China.

But tell me a bit about why the United States shifted its attention away from the Western Hemisphere in the first place and why we're shifting back now.

Can I pause you for a second?

What was the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?

I get that the Monroe Doctrine was, you know, everything in our neighborhood is our business.

But what was the Roosevelt Corollary?

You mentioned earlier about the U.S.

kind of using a more investment strategy to specifically counter China.