Politics & Power
Politics & Power
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Is President Trump’s Venezuela gambit a return to America’s imperial past?
36 minutes Posted Jan 13, 2026 at 5:00 am.
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President Donald Trump’s invasion of Venezuela and overthrow of the Venezuelan government is raising the question: Will it embolden him to execute other such radical acts? Jonathan Katz, author of the book “Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire” and writer of The Racket Newsletter, joins Bruce Hamilton this week for Politics & Power.