Trump and Latin America’s Costly Disunity
A splintered region will find it more difficult to cope with the coming disruptions from Washington.
It is a coincidence of history that Jimmy Carter died on December 29, just two days before the 25th anniversary of the United States’s handing back the Canal Zone and its waterway to Panama under the terms of a treaty he negotiated in 1977. And just three weeks before Donald Trump, who has threatened to try to recover the canal, moves back into the White House. Latin America has been braced for Trump’s threats to deport millions of immigrants, to levy tariffs on the region’s exports, even from close allies, and to take more robust action against drug traffickers and the...
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