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ALT Bar chart comparing bank credit to private sector as a percentage of GDP in Venezuela (3.5%) versus other Latin American countries.
ALT Now the adversary is adapting. Make no mistake about the nature of our enemy. Transnational cartels are violent extremist organizations. They operate as the Al Qaeda and ISIS of the Western Hemisphere. Having lost parity on the physical battlefield, these cartels have opened an asymmetric line of effort. Lawfare. In military doctrine, lawfare is not a legitimate legal discourse. It is the calculated weaponization of legal systems to achieve kinetic and operational effects. The cartels understand they cannot outgun our combined surface action groups or outmaneuver our air interdiction assets. So instead, they attempt to paralyze our decision cycle. They finance, run, and control our NGOs. They file spurious human rights petitions. They coordinate with corrupt transnational legal networks to generate operational drag. Spoil our intelligence collection. And induce risk aversion in our tactical commanders. Their objective is simple. Introduce artificial legal friction in our find, fix, fin
