Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Dan DePetris
“For successive U.S. administrations, the big region below the American southern U.S. border was considered a bit of a backwater. Sure, there were a few internal conflicts left outstanding, a couple of old-school leftist insurgencies still in operation, and the perpetual problem of drug trafficking. But after the Soviet Union collapsed, Latin America was never thought of as an epicenter of great power competition. The United States, frankly, didn’t have to worry about a geopolitical contender nosing into its own neighborhood. The Trump administration, however, isn’t like any other administration before it.” (03/19/25)