David Garcia

David Garcia is a Bloomberg editor and journalist based in Mexico City, previously with Reuters, whose reporting and analysis focuses on Mexico and Latin America across politics, elections, trade, security, migration, commodities, and general news.

US Revives Panama Jungle Training Amid Latin America Military Buildup

Bloomberg reports that the US military’s revived jungle training in Panama is both a readiness exercise and a signal of Washington’s harder posture in Latin America under Donald Trump. David Alire Garcia frames the return to Fort Sherman after a 25-year hiatus against the capture of Nicolás Maduro, the administration’s “Trump Corollary” language, and a broader regional buildup that has unsettled Panamanian officials and sovereignty advocates. The piece argues that the training is not evidence of an imminent operation, but it shows the US preparing for jungle warfare while redefining security cooperation in a region with a long memory of American intervention.

Bloomberg OriginalsMay 11, 20266 min read