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The Truth About Trump and Latin America

By Brian Winter

There’s far more sympathy for Trump’s worldview than you might think, writes AQ’s editor in chief.

About a month ago, I sat down to write an incendiary new column. Man, it felt good.

For starters, it had a cathartic headline: “Washington’s Biggest Threat in Latin America Isn’t China. It’s Itself.” The argument was that the Trump administration’s decision to treat some 900,000 young DREAMers as a political bargaining chip, and force the departure of...

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