Puerto Rico has a long and proud tradition of U.S. military service. Increases in the U.S. military presence in the Caribbean have set the region on edge. According to an ABC article dated Nov. 24, entitled Top U.S. military Adviser Visits Caribbean as Trump Ramps Up Pressure on Venezuela, high level officials from the Pentagon visited troops on the Island during Thanksgiving to thank them for their service. Is this military build-up temporary, and does it presage a larger conflict with Venezuela?

In January, in a televised address, broadcast by La Derecha Diario , Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro threatened to “ liberate Puerto Rico ” from the United States. Meanwhile, according to the same Nov. 24th ABC article article, some sources have described the increasing

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