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Juan Forero

ARTICLES BY JUAN FORERO

Call it the return of the “Big Stick” school of hemispheric relations, a throwback to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.

Speak loudly and carry a big stick—Trump’s approach to the Americas

7 min read . 06 Jan 2026

US President Donald Trump at a news conference on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. President Nicolas Maduro has been charged in the US after he was captured and flown out of Venezuela. (Photo: Bloomberg)

Trump rolls the dice on nation-building with vow to ‘run’ Venezuela

5 min read . 04 Jan 2026

President Trump with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth last week.

Trump says the US attacked Venezuelan docks where drugs are loaded onto boats

3 min read . 30 Dec 2025

Cuba’s deep reliance on Venezuela means Cuba’s Communist government is doing all it can to prevent Maduro. (REUTERS)

US oil blockade of Venezuela pushes Cuba toward collapse

5 min read . 21 Dec 2025

They run drug cargoes worth as much as $70 million on the sleek 40-foot-long boats, often built from fiberglass and powered by oversize outboards.

‘Deliver or die:’ Inside the drug-boat crews ferrying cocaine to the US

7 min read . 28 Nov 2025

The militias have grown as the amount of coca leaf and cocaine produced in Colombia have reached historic highs. (AP)

Cocaine-funded gangs shake Colombia years after peace pact

6 min read . 27 Jan 2025

A damaged banner depicting the ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad, in Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo)

It was a bad year for the world’s autocrats

5 min read . 26 Dec 2024

Andres Rave examining the walls of a mine for traces of a gold vein.. Photographs by Nicolas Enriquez for WSJ

A drug gang stole 3 tons of gold in a scam so perfect it’s still going

7 min read . 13 Nov 2024

Bolivia has weathered dozens of coups, and the president’s actions and the end of the uprising just three hours after it began was welcomed. (Photo by AIZAR RALDES / AFP) (AFP)

Was the military uprising a coup or a hoax? Bolivians aren’t sure

6 min read . 28 Jun 2024

Diego Rosselli spends hour upon hour behind the wheel driving to Colombian towns on his bucket list. (WSJ)

A man, his Land Rover and a 20-Year mission to see every corner of his country

4 min read . 11 Jun 2024

A facility of national oil company Petróleos de Venezuela PHOTO: LEONARDO FERNANDEZ VILORIA/REUTERS

Biden is unlikely to reimpose oil sanctions on Venezuela

5 min read . 30 Mar 2024

Corina Yoris, replacement for the upcoming elections of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. Yoris, philosopher and university professor, will face president Nicolas Maduro in the presidential elections on July 28. (Photo: AFP)

Meet the 80-year-old grandmother who’s taking on Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro

7 min read . 25 Mar 2024

For a Few Days, Flow of Migrants to U.S. Halted in Key Jungle Corridor

For a Few Days, Flow of Migrants to U.S. Halted in Key Jungle Corridor

6 min read . 01 Mar 2024

While the jungle corridor called the Darién Gap connecting Colombia and Panama has become one of the world’s major migrant bottlenecks, migrants from as far away as Uzbekistan and Vietnam bank on the little-known route that features San Andrés, an island province 450 miles from Colombia’s northern Caribbean coast.

To Avoid the Jungles of Central America, Migrants Are Taking a Treacherous Sea Route

7 min read . 20 Dec 2023

Smuggling Migrants Toward the U.S. Is a Booming Business

Smuggling Migrants Toward the U.S. Is a Booming Business

9 min read . 26 Oct 2023

A Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) oil processing plant in Maracaibo, Venezuela. (Bloomberg)

The US shifts focus to Venezuelan oil, but output is low

5 min read . 08 Mar 2022

Black smoke is emitted from the chimneys of a factory on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, April 23, 2021. World leaders from around the globe attended a virtual climate summit to raise global ambition on climate change and talked about their goals for reducing carbon emissions. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary) (AP)

Global emissions goals come with big cost and political hurdles

7 min read . 26 Apr 2021