COMMENTARY This week's mayoral election in Miami — the self-proclaimed capital of Latin America — may reflect the broader challenges Trump's bid for alpha control of the hemisphere faces.

Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) told The Post on Monday that the “beginning of the end” is here for Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, who recently pardoned a former Latin American leader for his drug-trafficking conviction, is considering direct military action against another, whom he accuses of sending drugs and criminals to the United States.

The similarities between what is happening now in Venezuela and what happened in the lead-up to Operation Just Cause are noteworthy. But the differences in outcomes between the attack on Panama and any actual assault on Venezuela could be even more striking—and dangerous.

The Trump administration is reviving the Monroe Doctrine for Latin America. The aim: keeping China out and securing oil and resources for itself.

U.S. President Donald Trump once said the Japanese came through the Panama Canal to attack Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Rating: Incorrect Attribution (About this rating?) On Aug. 24, 2025, a series of posts claimed U.S. President Donald Trump once said ...

Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to which the people of this republic will look back with the highest pride.” More than a century later, Donald Trump is threatening to take back the waterway for the same republic.

The US government has offered a record amount of money for information leading to Maduro's arrest. Will it work?

In the latest escalation, the U.S. military seized a tanker off Venezuela’s coast that was allegedly carrying sanctioned oil.