Washington’s renewed activism in the region revives the logic of the Monroe Doctrine and repositions the Caribbean as a strategic axis of its hemispheric influence.
The growing rivalry between global powers is turning Latin America into a strategic arena where infrastructure, technology, and resources define its real margin of autonomy.
Iran has woven in Latin America an adaptable network based on Hezbollah and alliances with organized crime, allowing it to maintain influence despite international pressure and political changes.
Argentina gains expanded access to the market and financial backing from Washington, but cedes strategic autonomy by aligning with its interests and limiting ties with China.
The support of the new Latin American right for Donald Trump reveals how far it is willing to relativize democracy in the name of its geopolitical alignment.
In the era of the “geopolitics of the self,” global power ceases to be structured around rules and stable alliances and instead revolves around the personalistic, transactional, and self-referential leadership of Donald Trump.
