Is the US About to Bomb Mexico?

The US is quietly launching a new war in Latin America: 600 troops headed to Panama, a new Western Hemisphere command in Miami, and Reaper drones moving to Colombia, according to the New York Times. The war on drugs is the cover: This is Trump’s Donroe Doctrine playing out in real time, says Rania Khalek. She and Zoe Alexandra unpack how boat strikes in the Caribbean paved the way for the January 3rd attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro, as terrorist designations of Latin American gangs give Washington legal cover to escalate its military campaign across the region.

Zoe Alexandra breaks down how Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s new “counter-cartel” Pentagon office and the Shield of the Americas alliance are setting the stage for airstrikes on Latin American soil, and why right-wing governments from Colombia to Ecuador to Honduras are inviting them in. She says despite Claudia Sheinbaum’s diplomacy so far keeping US drone strikes out of Mexico, the threat is far from off the table, as airstrikes across the region could soon become routine. And the hosts connect it to Trump’s war on immigrants at home, as ICE deports the same people Washington’s wars forced to flee.

“Every country has its sociopaths – but the US is really good at collecting them and then using them to destroy the Global South.”

First boat strikes. Then Venezuela. Now, 600 US troops are heading to Panama.

@ZoeAlexandra_ok and @RaniaKhalek on Trump’s quiet new war in Latin America, & why “terrorist” drug traffickers are just the cover