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Originally Posted by MtnGoat
As a Western hemisphere issues, yes your Assumption is right IMO. I DONT SEE Cuba getting much more "involved" in the Venezuela's issues.
America TV media is like a newspaper, you got to sell papers. TV it's all about the ratings and commercials. But we, US, need to be on the look out of what is going on in Latin America. We have Cuba and Venezuela being the biggest socialist countries. We have Hezbollah, Quad Forces there, along with an increased number of AQ related elements. This issues we have have in Mexico is not all drug cartel IMO.
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I, for one, look forward to the day 7th Group and other assets can focus exclusively on Latin America without the distraction of other current AOs and execute on some solid foreign policy.
There's not heaps in open source about the success SF have had in Latin America(which is a shame considering it's applicability to recent operating environments) in the 70's-90's with a handful of personnel and limited budget.
But what I've read leaves me hopeful that it can be replicated in the period ahead.
The considerable violence in Mexico, Venezuela, and Central America in recent years matched with some "interesting" populist leftists across South America leads me to believe there's a couple decades and a couple thousand man years worth of work to be done.