Washington, DC — The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) is launching a new blog with live updates focused on US militarism, aggression, and intervention in Latin America and the Caribbean. CEPR’s Latin America and US foreign policy experts will focus on US strikes on boats, threats against Venezuela and Colombia, and other aspects of US interventionism in the region under the second Trump administration. The site will also follow responses to US actions from governments and civil society in the region, as well as in the United States.

“We seem to be in a new era of US hostility south of the border. The dynamics are not wholly unfamiliar, but they also represent a dangerous new escalation with an open disregard for international law and agreements, let alone for widely recognized diplomatic and human rights norms,” CEPR Director of International Policy Alexander Main said. “And since, as the prominent scholar Greg Grandin has noted, Latin America is often a laboratory for US political, military, and intelligence experiments, this escalation could have profound implications beyond the region.”

CEPR’s Latin America and Caribbean and US foreign policy experts include journalists, economists, lawyers, and scholars from the United States, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, and other countries; authors of books on US intervention in the region; and researchers and economists who have followed political and economic changes in the region over the past 25 years.