Trump Faces New Battleground in Latin America With China and Russia

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Freshly-installed US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the highest-ranking Hispanic American official in U.S. history, picked Central America and the Caribbean for his first tour in his new post and has pushed Latin America towards the front of the new administration's foreign policy agenda. "Our allies in the U.S. are considering their approach," said Baroness Jennifer Chapman, the U.K. government's Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Latin America and Caribbean during a speech at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) think tank in London on Thursday.