Renewed interest in Latin America is likely to bring changes to U.S. Southern Command, Donovan acknowledged.

A “modest implementation” of DOW would cost taxpayers about $10 million, the report said. That figure could rise to $125 million if adopted more broadly.

More than half of U.S. adults believe Trump has “gone too far” in using the U.S. military to intervene in other countries, according to an AP-NORC poll.

A legal memo that came out days before the U.S. military operation said such a move would “not rise to the level of a war in the constitutional sense.”

The plane used by the U.S. military to strike an alleged drug boat off Venezuela last fall was painted to look like a civilian aircraft, AP reports.