Tensions are rising in the Caribbean Sea, as United States President Donald Trump and his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro increase their countries' military presences in the region.
But what has precipitated the spike in tensions?
This week, reporter Joseph Stepansky explores Trump's increasingly aggressive approach to confronting Latin American gangs — and how it relates to Trump's notoriously rocky relationship with Maduro.
On September 2, Donald Trump was midway through a speech about the US Space Command when he abruptly changed course. The US, he explained, had just bombed a small boat in the Caribbean. What does the air strike signal about the US's new military posture?
"They are repurposing the 'war on terror' for entirely new sets of supposed enemies in a way that is radically inappropriate."
Under President Donald Trump, a trend has emerged: of administration officials petitioning the Supreme Court for emergency orders. What's at stake when the high court makes snap judgments, without a full hearing or oral arguments? Experts weigh in on the risks.
"Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial."
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina crashed ashore in Louisiana as a powerful Category 3 storm. The destruction it wreaked cost as many as 1,800 lives. But 20 years later, experts are warning that the US is once again vulnerable to another disaster like Katrina.
"I would be concerned that, with a large catastrophic event today, we would be in a similar position."
It was a victory for environmental activists in Rio Blanco, Ecuador: In 2018, a court suspended operations at the local gold-and-silver mine indefinitely. But in the years that followed, clashes have broken out, as neighbours disagree over the mine's fate — and the local economy.
"There have been murders. There have been suicides. They have been completely torn apart."
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