U.S. sending aircraft carrier strike group to Latin America
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"Trump ran on ending foreign wars, but it increasingly looks like we are sleepwalking into a new war of choice in South America."
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the deployment of the Gerald Ford aircraft carrier and its supporting warships to the U.S. Southern Command Area, the Pentagon said on Friday, drastically increasing the number of troops and aircraft in the Latin America region.
The announcement marked the first public comments about the crackdown dubbed Operation Madre Tierra VII, coordinated by Interpol’s bureau for Central America.
Jerry Huster’s eyes welled as he watched the red cars of the Wild One roller coaster click up the worn wooden tracks, thinking about those days, now decades ago, zipping around on repeat with his childhood friend Amy.