Balance of Power: Trump the Unifier
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From the Rio Grande to Cape Horn, nothing unites Latin America like the threat of U.S. military intervention.
Washington’s past support for dictatorships in Argentina, Brazil and Chile in the 1960s and 1970s ushered in one of the darkest periods of the continent’s recent history. Now President Donald Trump's talk of a “possible military option” for Venezuela has gifted President Nicolas Maduro the opportunity to pose as the continent’s pre-eminent anti-imperialist.