While the new US president appears fixated on trade battles with Mexico and halting immigration from the southern border, deep economic and political crises in countries like Venezuela and Brazil threaten to spiral out of control.
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Trump's obsession with Mexico makes him miss the bigger picture on Latin America
Latin America is a big place — or, as Donald Trump might put it, muy grande.
A protestor in Venezuela.
The international press has really slept at the wheel on this one
Conditions in Venezuela are incomparably worse, by orders of magnitude. The country has become a large, dictatorial failed state in the middle of the region that has generated heartbreaking stories of personal struggle but little in the way of international action to address rising hunger and violence.
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