There have long been whispers of US special forces top secret missions inside Latin America Some of it is real history, some of it recently declassified documents. The idea has made its way into pop culture with games like Ghost Recon Wildlands and the movie Sicarios. This is going to be like an iceberg video where in the beginning will be the most common surface-level knowledge and we’ll end with the more obscure dark special forces missions in Latin America. -The first is the Joint Combined Exchange TrainingThe Washington Office on Latin America, which is a human rights-focused think tank….used a Freedom of Information Act request to uncover just how many personnel and resources are going to Latin American countries each year. What they found was shocking. There was a dramatic rise in JSOC training missions in the region over the past two decades. Between 2007 and 2014 the number of JTEC missions to Latin America tripled.