In a Press Conference following the Early Morning Capture of Venezuela's Leader and His Wife, Trump (R) Justified the Operation as One in line with a more than 200-year-old Roreign Policy Agenda, the Monroe Doctrine.
The Monroe Doctrine, named after its Architect former President James Monroe (Democratic-Republican Party) in 1823, is One of the most Consequential U.S. Foreign Policy Agendas in the 19th century. It began as a Largely Symbolic Document that Stated American Opposition to New or Expanding European Involvement in the Americas, after Centuries of Colonial Activity in the Region.
It would go on to become a Significant Element of U.S. Foreign Policy toward the Region for Decades, though it has been Increasingly Criticized by Academics and Policy Makers for being used to Justify Interventions in Latin America.
The Doctrine Outlined how the U.S. Government considered South and Central America a Strategic Backyard, seen as a Region that should Fall to American Influence, rather than European. The Doctrine's Ethos continued to evolve through later Administrations.
In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt (Republican Party-Progressive Party, also known as the Bull Moose Party) added the so-called "Roosevelt Corollary," which said the U.S. has a right to intervene in the Americas under certain Circumstances. It Declared that the U.S. government could "Exercise International Police Power" to End what Roosevelt called "Chronic Unrest or Wrongdoing" in the Western Hemisphere.
It served as Justification for U.S. Intervention in: Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic. U.S. Marines were sent into Santo Domingo in 1904, Nicaragua in 1911, and Haiti in 1915, "Ostensibly to Keep the Europeans Out," the National Archives says. In 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) Renounced Interventionism and established His "Good Neighbor" Policy within the Western Hemisphere, seen as an End to the Height of Monroe Doctrine Foreign Policy.
Though U.S. Intervention in Central and South America occurred long before the Monroe Doctrine, interpretations of the Document underpinned several Significant U.S. Projects and Actions in the Region, from the Building of the Panama Canal to the Cold War years. It also Significantly Strained Relationships with various Latin American Countries for many Decades, and has remained a Key Document in Understanding both Historic and Contemporary U.S. Foreign Policy in the Rregion.
The Doctrine, which Trump called the "Donroe Doctrine," has for years been Relegated to Foreign Policy History, from which recent administrations have sought to distance themselves. But more than a decade after then-U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, under former President Barack Obama, announced the "era of Monroe Doctrine is over," Trump is now embracing it.
In His Remarks on Jan. 3rd, 2026, Trump cast the Doctrine as a Continuing Tenet of U.S. Foreign Policy, and said the Operation that ousted Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro, Not only Abides by it, but goes a Step further. Trump alleged the Country was "hosting foreign adversaries" and "acquiring offensive weapons" and Accused Venezuela of Seizing and Selling American Oil Assets.
The U.S. "successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolás Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Country," Trump said in a Post on Truth Social.
"All of these actions were in gross violation of the core principles of American foreign policy, dating back more than two centuries," Trump said. "All the way back, dated to the Monroe doctrines. And the Monroe Doctrine is a big deal, but we've superseded it by a lot, by a real lot. They now call it the Donroe doctrine."
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