John Haltiwanger
It’s been nearly a month since Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was captured in the dead of the night by elite U.S. forces during a stunning raid in Caracas. The extraordinary, unilateral military operation sent shock waves across the globe and marked the first-ever direct attack on a South American country by the United States. Latin America is facing an unsettling new reality undergirded by rising fears that no country is considered off-limits to U.S. President Donald Trump.
The shifting justifications that the Trump administration has offered in recent months for its actions, which have ranged from a focus on taking the fight to so-called narcoterrorists to gaining control over Venezuela’s oil, are “really quite terrifying from a Latin American perspective,” Oliver Stuenkel, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told Foreign Policy.
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