Milei Went to Jerusalem. Guatemala Told Washington No.

Highlights | Latin America's turn toward Israel is a marker of alignment with Washington, and the ground-operations push is where that alignment gets tested

DefenseHub · Tuesday — Highlights · August 18, 2026

By R. Planche · Chief Editor & OSINT Curator

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Javier Milei has made close relations with Israel a defining feature of his foreign policy, and Venezuela has agreed to restart limited consular ties with Israel after seventeen years of severed relations. Neither move is isolated. Reporting by Gabriel Gonzale…