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Nearly 50 percent of Latin America’s population will go through a presidential election this year, and US President Donald Trump is poised to impact every contest in some form, given his record in the region.
Campaigns across Central and South America — voting has started in Costa Rica and continues this weekend in Peru — are already marked not only by security concerns and political volatility but also by Trump’s heightened assertiveness.
In his second term, Trump has sought to expand the White House’s influence on the region. He has pressured some Central American countries to receive deported migrants from other nations, deposed Venezuelan President…