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How the Monroe Doctrine factors into US arrest of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro

Jan 5, 2026
Trump described the raid to seize leftist Nicolas Maduro as an update of the Monroe Doctrine, the 1823 declaration by fifth US president James Monroe that Latin America was closed to other powers, then meaning Europe. FRANCE 24's Monte Francis explains.
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