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My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Today, the transnational wars on crime and drug trafficking have displaced anti-communism

to become the dominant frameworks for prosecuting and legitimating US intervention in Latin America,

particularly in Mexico and Central America.

But perversely, these violent interventions, along with hardening militarized border

controls, not only at the US southern border, but through southern Mexico and beyond.

It's also all supposed to help stop people from migrating to the United States.

The reality, of course, is that the US is very unlikely to solve the Central American

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