Americas first: the threat of a new “war on terror”

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  The Economist Hi, John Prado here.

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  We have deployed US assets and interests all over the planet,

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  but when we do it in our own hemisphere, everyone sort of freaks out.

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  Thus, Marco Rubio, the American Secretary of State,

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  dismissed alarm about the gathering military campaign against narco-terrorists.

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  Since September, American forces have repeatedly struck alleged drug-running boats.

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  Now they are massing a formidable naval force in the Caribbean and threatening to bomb Venezuela.

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  The effort to overthrow the country's strongman, Nicolás Maduro, is scarcely disguised.

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  Asked if Mr.

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  Maduro's days are numbered, President Donald Trump told CBS News, I would say yes, I think so, yes.

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  An aircraft carrier strike group is on its way to join the Caribbean force.

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  A dormant base in Puerto Rico has been reopened.

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  bombers buzz Venezuela while Marines rehearse amphibious landings.

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  The CIA has been authorized to run covert operations.

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  America's gunboat diplomacy revives a dark history of military intervention and coup mongering in Latin America,

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  often motivated by fear of hostile powers, which abated after the Cold War.

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