Under the Shadow is an investigative narrative podcast that takes listeners to the scenes of Latin America’s most devastating, revolutionary, and historic moments—walking back in time by visiting the places where that history was made. Host Michael Fox, a longtime Latin America-based journalist, spent Season 1 traveling across Central America, tracing the long shadow of US intervention and how it still shapes the region today.

In Season 2, the shadow is no longer history—it’s the news. Fox responds in real time to the Trump administration’s onslaught in Latin America, from military strikes in the Caribbean and the invasion of Venezuela to the blockade of Cuba and Washington’s push to build a coalition of allied right-wing governments across the hemisphere. Reporting from the ground and drawing on the deep historical throughlines the series is known for, Season 2 connects what’s happening now to more than a century of US intervention—and follows the movements across the Americas fighting back.

Under the Shadow is produced in partnership with The Real News Network and the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA).

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Season 2

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Homeland Empire | Under the Shadow S2E6

We are seeing an unprecedented reorganization of domestic and foreign policy in the United States. Both of them deployed to achieve the same goal — punish the opposition to Trump. Punish his political opponents. This is episode 6 of Under the Shadow, Season 2.

When the bombs fell on Caracas | Under the Shadow S2E5

The United States has painted its January 3 invasion of Venezuela as a surgical operation. But for those on the ground it was a disaster. The US killed more than 100 people. It hit civilian targets and left terror and destruction in its wake. This is episode 5 of Under the Shadow, Season 2.

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