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The Quincy Institute hosted a Tuesday discussion of the Trump administration’s fight against “narco-terrorism.” The post Expert Panel: Trump’s Latin America Policy Won’t Stop Drugs appeared first on The American Conservative .
Latin America Expert Panel: Trump’s Latin America Policy Won’t Stop Drugs The Quincy Institute hosted a Tuesday discussion of the Trump administration’s fight against “narco-terrorism.” Photo by ULISES RUIZ / AFP via Getty Images The Trump administration’s Latin America policies are too simplistic for the complicated problems facing the region, a panel of restraint-oriented foreign policy experts concluded Tuesday. The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft gathered Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, co-director of the Corruption, Networks, and Transnational Crime Research Center (CONTRA) at George Mason…Open
AI:The Quincy Institute recently hosted a forum featuring various restraint-oriented foreign policy experts who argued that the Trump administration's aggressive, militarized approach to fighting narco-terrorism in Latin America is too simplistic and destined to fail. Panelists Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, Isabel Pereira Arana, and Lee Schlenker contended that focusing heavily on coercion and security measures neglects root causes like local poverty and corruption, potentially leading to a "balloon effect" where criminal networks simply adapt or displace their operations elsewhere. These academics suggested that instead of the administration's decisive stance against cartels, the United States should prioritize rural development, strengthening…Open