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America is reviving the Roosevelt Roads naval base in Puerto Rico as a staging ground for its expanding war against Latin America’s drug gangs.
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For two decades Roosevelt Roads, a sprawling American naval base in Puerto Rico, stood abandoned. Now the roar of fighter jets and whirring of helicopters have returned to fill the humid air. Over the past month air force personnel have laboured to restore the airstrip’s control tower and decrepit infrastructure, while hulking cargo planes ferry in crateloads of supplies and equipment.
America is reviving the base as a staging ground for its expanding war against Latin America’s drug gangs.
