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As Floridians prepare for the holiday season, we’re used to seeing our state fill with family reunions, returning college students and service members finally home from long deployments abroad.

But this year, thousands of our men and women stationed under the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) and Special Operations Command (SOCOM) may not make it back in time — or at all. President Trump’s aggressive escalation in Latin America is pulling our military deeper into a regional crisis of his own making, and Florida will be the first state to feel the impact.

Lynn Northcutt Vega is a retired career foreign service officer. (courtesy, Lynn Northcutt Vega)

Over the past several months, the Trump administration has dramatically increased U.S. militar

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