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In a high-level meeting on Friday, the presidents of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador will discuss the region’s security with American and Mexican officials.
Innocuous enough, you may think. But part of the meeting will be held on a U.S. military base in Miami, Florida — the headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command, the Pentagon’s regional subsidiary that oversees American military operations throughout Central and South America as well as the Caribbean. Under President Donald Trump, the militarization of U.S. foreign policy is about to stretch more deeply into Central America.
Central America policy-making, hardly an open book to begin with, is
