FROM MARGARITA TO MIAMI: TRUMP, CARTELS, AND THE BATTLE FOR THE CONTINENTAL SOULBy an Eyewitness to the Hemisphere’s Slow-Motion BreakdownThe Caribbean looks peaceful if you’ve never stood on its edge at 3 a.m. There’s a hum out there — naval engines, smuggling boats, Chinese satellites bouncing code off Venezuelan towers, Russian advisers whispering in dimly lit bunkers, cartel accountants swiping cocaine dust off their ledgers on Isla Margarita. It’s the kind of hum that tells you something in the hemisphere is about to snap.
Washington pretends this is all normal. “Regional challenges,” the suits say. “Geopolitical complexities.” But if you get close enough — if you watch the narcotraffickers race across the Caribbean in low-profile boats or see the Russian warship Admiral Gorshkov sliding into Venezuelan waters like a shark — you know what this really is.
It’s a border war without borders.
A continental crisis wrapped in polite diplomatic euphemisms.
A slow-motion invasion of influence, cash, weapons, and strategic creep.
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