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Trump's Policy and the Future of Latin America

An analysis of Donald Trump's policy and its impact on Latin America. The author speculates on who could be his successor and how his actions are changing the global balance of power.


Trump's Policy and the Future of Latin America

He who sows the wind reaps the storm. The figure who replaces Trump must be his polar opposite to regain the trust that Trump has destroyed with his policy of terror and threats. It is very likely to be a moderate center-right candidate, with a vision more aligned with the reality of a multipolar world. In the rest of the countries of Latin America, where leaders tied to Trump's mandates and submissive to his new Monroe Doctrine, changes are also expected, as is the case in Argentina and Panama. In Argentina, Milei has handed the return of Peronism on a silver platter, and in Panama, where Mulino marks very low in acceptance statistics, it is very likely that a center-right figure or some independent who promises the return of lost social conquests and the reconquest as a neutral country, not aligned with any power, will come to power. The author is a sociologist and teacher. Almost simultaneously with Donald Trump's arrival at the US Presidency, other leaders in Latin America identified with the far-right ideology also came to power, such as Daniel Noboa (Ecuador), Nasry Asfura (Honduras), Javier Milei (Argentina), and José Raúl Mulino (Panama), among others. All these leaders present common characteristics: they declare themselves as business governments, enemies of social movements and openly anti-communist. Let us note that Donald Trump dusted off the anti-communism of the fifties, openly accusing China of being a threat to democracy in Latin America, above all. At a kind of summit of Latin American countries held in the United States, to which the presidents of Colombia and Brazil did not attend, Donald Trump practically proclaimed himself as the representative of the new Monroe Doctrine: America for the Americans (United States). Contrary to his electoral promises of economic well-being and a harmonious world sustained by diplomacy, Trump has done the opposite, using threat, coercion, and military intervention for whoever does not stay in line. Millions of people have already manifested in the United States itself against Trump's warmongering policy, very similar to the Vietnam War in the seventies. Even renowned Hollywood artists have branded him as crazy, narcissistic, unhinged, perverted, and a host more of epithets. Trump has achieved what no other US president had done: divide NATO and distance old allies from Europe. He has also made many adversary countries of Iran lay down rivalries and approach negotiating with the Persian country. The issue with Trump is that he is increasingly out of control and his bipolar management has generated the distrust of several allies who do not want to get involved in a war without clear objectives. What Trump has not managed to understand is that the current world is not the same as during the Cold War. It is a world of emerging powers like China, Russia, North Korea, and India, among others, that claim their space for economic well-being. The convulsed way in which Trump is leading the United States does not augur a positive path, but a dramatic end for Trump as well, which could lead him to a dismissal or a trial for multiple charges that have already been presented.

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