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President Donald Trump nominated Lieutenant General Francis L. Donovan as the new head of the U.S. Southern Command, overseeing operations in Latin America. This comes amid U.S. military deployments in the Caribbean and Pacific, targeting drug-smuggling vessels and imposing a "total blockade" on sanctioned oil tankers to and from Venezuela. The previous commander, Admiral Alvin Holsey, resigned after disagreements with the Defense Secretary over the legality of these operations. Donovan, currently the deputy chief of U.S

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