More than two decades ago, on January 24, 2004, I landed in Baghdad as a legal advisor, assigned an office in what was then known as the Green Zone. It was raining and cold, and my duffle bag was thrown into a puddle off the C-130 aircraft that had just done a corkscrew dive to reach the runway without risk of ground fire.

Panama charges tariffs for vessels traveling through the iconic waterway, with fees varying by size and purpose.

Overall, Trump’s focus on dominating the Western hemisphere represents a profound shift from nearly a century’s-long focus on warding off overseas threats to protect Americans at home. And like it or not, for Trump, security in the second quarter of the 21st century lies in concepts and ideas first developed in the last quarter of the 19th century.

In a national address announcing the invasion of Panama, US president George HW Bush laid out his grounds for moving against Noriega, a defiant nationalist who brandished a machete in public and hosted cocaine-fuelled parties at his lavish mansions.

From a boost in U.S. troop numbers at the U.S.–Mexico border to an increased military presence in the southern Caribbean, security policy concerning Latin America rests high on the agenda of the second Trump administration.

U.S. strikes have killed at least 80 people in 20 attacks on small boats that the U.S. has accused of transporting narcotics in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean, since early September.

The Trump administration’s military buildup in the Caribbean aimed at pressuring Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro reached a new stage on Tuesday when the USS Gerald R Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier,