Exactly 20 years ago next month, Argentina hosted the fourth Summit of the Americas in the seaside city of Mar del Plata. There, a troika of Néstor Kirchner, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Hugo Chávez resisted a push from then-US president George W. Bush to introduce a free-trade area in the Americas, known as the FTAA or ALCA in its Spanish acronym. In defeat, Washington silently retreated from the region. Now it’s coming back, in full swing.
Donald Trump 2.0 is showing US involvement like the region had not seen in decades. It begins closer to home, with an anti-gang stance that has designated criminal organisations in countries like Mexico and Venezuela and deployed sizeable air and n
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