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The Latin American Challenge and Shaping a Realistic Way Ahead
07/10/2018
By Stephen Blank
The revelation that President Trump has seriously considered the desirability of invading Venezuela ought to focus our attention on that unhappy country and others like it in Latin America.
While Venezuela’s crisis is an extreme manifestation of the kleptocratic autocracies masquerading under the socialist or Chavista sobriquet in Latin America; it is not the only such regime there to be on the edge of collapse.
Venezuela may already be a failed state but by all accounts Nicaragua now teeters on the edge of civil war thanks to the persisting illegitimate governance (a term coined by Max Manwaring formerly of the US Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute) of President Daniel Ortega.
https://sldinfo.com/2018/07/the-latin-american-challenge-and-shaping-a-realistic-way-ahead/