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US aims 'for regime change on the cheap' with Caribbean military build-up, says analyst - DW News
There's growing international concern over the US military build-up in the Caribbean. The Trump administration says the US flotilla is there to target drug-smugglers bringing narcotics into the United States. But America's allies -including France - have expressed concerns that the campaign could escalate into a wider conflict.
00:00 Concern as US ramps up military presence in Caribbean
02:01 Leopoldo Lopez is a Venezuelan opposition leader who was imprisoned under Nicolas Maduro's regime.
13:00 Christopher Sabatini, a Senior Research Fellow for Latin America at the Chatham House