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Trump’s “Narco-Terrorism” Operations in Ecuador: A New Phase of the Donroe Doctrine?

On 3 March 2026, US Southern Command, the military unit overseeing operations in Central and South America, announced via X that “decisive action” had been taken against “domestic terror organisations”…

Ryan Hesketh

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