Yankee Imperialism Increases its Intervention in Latin America
Featured image: Donald Trump meets with lackeys of several countries of Latin America. Source: AFP.
The US President Donald Trump met on 7th of March with representatives from 17 countries of Latin America, in the so-called “Shield of the Americas”, and agreed to “combat cartels and organizations considered terrorists in the Western Hemisphere”. The meeting was made in Doral, Florida, and this “combat” was used as a justification for “a mobilization of Yankee military and intelligence resources in the Latin American continent”, reports A Nova Democracia (AND).
The meeting gathered representatives of “Latin American lackeys governments, servants to the Yankee external affairs policy”. Among the attendees, the presidents of Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Ecuador, Paraguay, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and Guyana were present. There were also representatives of other countries such as Trinidad and Tobago. Brazil, Mexico and Colombia did not send representatives to the meeting. AND highlights that the Yankee proposals are similar to the “alliances used by United States in international operations, such as the case of the intervention in Haiti”.
The summit is interpreted also as part of a broader strategy of Yankee imperialism to maintain its influence in the western hemisphere, according to AND, against the “technological and economical advance of China in Latin America”. Trump himself stated during the meeting that Yankee imperialism “won’t allow any hostile foreign power to enlarge its strategic presence in the continent”.
In the past months Yankee imperialism has broadened its initiatives of “military cooperation” with lackey governments of Latin America using as an excuse the war on drugs. The recent landing of US troops in Paraguay is an example. We recently reported on this issue:
Different military operations have been carried out by Yankee imperialism in the continent. One such military operation took place at the beginning of March of this year, along with the Ecuadorian government. The Southern Command described these operations as “lethal”. As AND reports, one of the most criminal interventions of Yankee imperialism in Latin America took place recently, in January, when the US government attacked Venezuela and kidnapped the president Nicolás Maduro.
Brazil is in the sights of Yankee imperialism: in May, 2025, Yankee imperialism demanded the Brazilian government to label the “Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) and the “Comando Vermelho” as “terrorist groups”. The proposal was rejected by the Brazilian government. Some political Parties and individuals defended the Yankee proposal, as for example the ultra-reactionary candidate Flávio Bolsonaro. This demand by Yankee imperialism, if accepted, would allow the United States to apply financial sanctions, intelligence operations and military interventions, justified as “combat against terrorism”. AND explains that “This initiative takes place amid an escalation of political and military disputes in the continent, transforming the combat of drug trafficking into one of the main axis of external policy of Yankee imperialism in Latin America”.
