“WE HAVE deployed US assets and interests all over the planet, but when we do it in our own hemisphere… everyone sort of freaks out.”
Thus Marco Rubio, the American secretary of state, dismissed alarm about the gathering military campaign against “narco-terrorists”. Since September American forces have repeatedly struck alleged drug-running boats.
Now they are massing a formidable naval force in the Caribbean and threatening to bomb Venezuela. The effort to overthrow the country’s strongman, Nicolás Maduro, is scarcely disguised.
Asked if Mr Maduro’s days are numbered, President Donald Trump told CBS News: “I would say yeah. I think so, yeah.”
