Image: A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor parks following a large-scale strike against Venezuela military targets in support of Operation Absolute Resolve, in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, January 3, 2026.Katelynn Jackson / U.S. Air Force via Getty Images

Sharon Zhang of Truthout reports: “The Trump administration’s operations in Latin America over the past seven months have cost nearly $5 billion, finds a new analysis — enough to fund Medicaid for half a million Americans for a year.

Thus far, the combination of the military costs for the deadly raid of Venezuela and abduction of then-President Nicolás Maduro as well as the U.S.’s boat strike and surveillance campaign in the eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea is at least $4.7 billion, according to an analysis released on Thursday by the Brown University Watson School of International and Public Affairs’s Costs of War project…”

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