In a Miami speech on Thursday afternoon, Trump administration national security advisor (and persistent advocate for spreading democracy at the point of a gun/drone/ballistic missile) John Bolton promised the United States would take a more aggressive stance towards left-wing dictators in Latin America.
Specifically, Bolton identified the nations of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela as a “Troika of Tyranny” responsible for “immense human suffering” and the cause of “enormous regional instability.” Bolton made it clear that the Trump administration would be putting more pressure on Cuban president Raúl Castro, Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega, and Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro—with the goal of seeing “each corner of the triangle fall,” according to The Washington Post’s Josh Rogin.
If this seems like almost comically bad rebranding of the George W. Bush administration’s “Axis of Evil”—consisting of Iraq, Iran, and North Korea—well, that’s because it is.
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