Argentina Is the True Test of Trump’s Latin America Power Play

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The toppling of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro offered the clearest sign yet of Donald Trump’s intention to reassert US dominance in the Americas, but it’s Argentina that holds clues about how successful the so-called “Donroe Doctrine” may ultimately be.

Even before the stunning intervention in Caracas, Trump had regularly wielded aggression in an attempt to get his way in Latin America: He’s threatened military force against Mexico, Colombia and Panama, slapped punitive tariffs on Brazil, and put his finger on the scale of an election in Honduras.

But Argentina, home to one of his ...