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US Military Posturing, Venezuela's Cartel de Los Soles, and Instability in the Americas Professor Evan Ellis analyzed President Trump's escalating military posturing and actions against drug cartels, particularly impacting the Venezuelan regime of Nicolá

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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US Military Posturing, Venezuela's Cartel de Los Soles, and Instability in the Americas

Professor Evan Ellis analyzed President Trump's escalating military posturing and actions against drug cartels, particularly impacting the Venezuelan regime of Nicolás Maduro and the Cartel de Los Soles. Senate members raised constitutional concerns over the use of military force. Ellis also examined political resistance to Argentinian President Javier Milei's austerity measures amid broader instability in the Americas, and noted positive strategic movements toward improved relationships with Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum and Brazil's Lula da Silva.
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This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel with the New World Report. Professor Evan Ellis is here,

0:09.7

U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute. There's a great deal of anxiety and violence

0:17.0

throughout the Americas in these last days. We turn to a story that is not yet and perhaps will not become violent,

0:25.7

but it is about a contest in Buenos Aires and in Argentina between the status quo ante,

0:32.0

which is Perrinique's coalition for many years, dominating the economy, the unions,

0:39.6

and the politics of Buenos Aires,

0:42.3

and a man named Javier Malay,

0:43.9

who is elected president of Argentina,

0:47.6

and yet his party, or the parties associated with him,

0:51.3

are a minor voice in the legislature,

0:56.2

leaving the president in a quandary about how to initiate his attempts to clean up the economy and reorganize the people of

1:04.7

Argentina into prosperity where they come from. This is a prosperous, rich, well-educated, extremely lucky land

1:13.2

that has been turned into a bank account for elements in the country

1:18.4

and outside of the country for many decades,

1:20.6

almost so that it seems normal.

1:23.5

Evan, I need your help on to interpret a complicated headline from Reuters.

1:29.3

Argentina's lower house approved a bill to curb the use of presidential emergency decrees,

1:37.3

a challenge to the executive powers of President Malay, whose party holds a minority in both legislative chambers.

1:45.8

The explanation, lawmakers passed the measure 140 in favor and 80 against with 17 abstentions.

1:53.5

The bill was already cleared by the Senate, but newly voted on modifications to the

1:58.0

articles means it will now return to the upper house.

2:02.0

What does this mean?

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