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Security & Strategic Review - March 2007
US intelligence chiefs see no major security threat from Latin America
Latin America poses no major threats to the national security of the US - at least according to the latest annual threat assessments presented to the US Congress by the director of national intelligence and the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Indeed the only clearly defined threats are the possibility that Colombia's Farc guerrillas may continue to target US interests and nationals, and that Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez will persist in his effort to 'neutralise' US influence in the region.
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