{"id":5261,"date":"2026-01-08T12:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/08\/us-senator-washington-plans-regime-changes-latin-america\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T12:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:30:24","slug":"us-senator-washington-plans-regime-changes-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/08\/us-senator-washington-plans-regime-changes-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senator Claims Washington Plans Regime Changes in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican US senator has stated that Washington is pursuing plans to change political regimes in several Latin American countries, including Cuba, Nicaragua, and Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Scott, a member of the US Senate, told Fox News that he believes &#8220;Cuba will be reformed, Nicaragua will be stabilized, and a new president will take office in Colombia next year.&#8221; He described these developments as part of the United States&#8217; future approach in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The senator also claimed that the arrest of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro in Venezuela could trigger broader changes; changes that, according to him, would not be limited to Venezuela but would encompass all of Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>These comments come as the administration of Donald Trump, the current President of the United States, has repeatedly referred to Latin America as Washington\u2019s &#8220;backyard.&#8221; This approach has faced serious criticism over alleged interventionism, political pressure, and military threats against independent countries in the region, raising concerns about violations of national sovereignty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Senator Rick Scott says Washington plans regime changes in Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, and suggests wider shifts across Latin America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}