intervention
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Two-legged robots have a tendency to fall over and “need human intervention to get back up,” like tortoises fallen on their backs.
From Los Angeles Times
But it could result in pushback from Latin Americans who don’t want to see a return of U.S. interventions in the region.
The weekend raid was precise and represented the first direct, unilateral U.S. military intervention in South America.
Despite the U.S. intervention, presaged by aircraft carriers roving the Caribbean this fall and attacks on accused drug-trafficking boats, some investors cautioned that Venezuela’s future is still highly uncertain.
“We categorically reject intervention in the internal affairs of other countries,” President Claudia Sheinbaum said in her daily news conference Monday.
From Los Angeles Times
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