NEW AQ: The Return of the Big Stick
Donald Trump’s renewed interventionism feels familiar, but how Latin America might respond is less clear.
This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on the Trump Doctrine If there were any doubts that Washington has again embraced the “big stick” diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt, they ended with the dramatic January 3 operation to capture Nicolás Maduro. Mere hours later, President Donald Trump explicitly proclaimed that “American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again.” The rhetoric felt like a throwback to the 19th or 20th century. But as our editor-in-chief Brian Winter notes in our cover story, Latin America and the Caribbean appear to have...
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