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“The US is sending hundreds of soldiers to Latin America as the Pentagon widens its campaign against drug traffickers, The New York Times reported.”

“…on has prioritized defense of the Western Hemisphere, which in practice has meant a whole-of-government approach: the State Department designated several cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control…”

“… should he win, will almost certainly sign Brazil up to Trump’s Shield of the Americas, a coalition of 18 rightwing Latin American and Caribbean heads of state that promises to use “lethal military force to destroy the sinister cartels and terrorist…”

“This may be the case, for example, when the hostilities are of a collective character or when the government is obliged to use military force against the insurgents, instead of mere police forces."”