South America – Blazingcatfur

Trump convenes ‘Shield of Americas’ summit with 12 Latin American leaders

Donald Trump changed the channel from Iran to the western hemisphere on Saturday, convening a gathering of Latin American leaders at his Miami-area golf club to discuss regional interests and establishing what he called a “counter-cartel coalition”.

“Just as we formed a coalition to eradicate Isis, we now need a coalition to eradicate the cartels,” he told 12 regional leaders gathered at what the White House called the “Shield of the Americas” summit.

“We must recognize that the epicenter of cartel violence is Mexico,” where “the cartels are fueling and orchestrating much of the bloodshed and chaos in this hemisphere.”

by Blazingcatfur•March 8, 2026March 7, 2026•0•South America, USA

China Signals It Won’t Give an Inch to the U.S. in Latin America

China intends to keep playing in the U.S. backyard, Latin America.

The Trump administration took veiled swipes at China in its national-security strategy with the vow to “restore American pre-eminence in the Western Hemisphere” and “deny non-Hemispheric competitors.”

Less than a week after the release of the U.S. strategy in December, Beijing issued a little-noticed policy paper on Latin America and the Caribbean that geopolitical analysts say foreshadows more U.S.-China jostling for regional influence.

by Blazingcatfur•January 2, 2026January 2, 2026•0•"China - Communist Slave State", South America, USA

There Goes Latin America: Iran’s Regime in America’s Backyard

A threatening development has been brewing largely under the radar of the Biden administration and the mainstream media attention: Iran’s calculated expansion into Latin America, from Argentina to Mexico.

With alarming nonchalance, the Biden administration appears to have turned a blind eye to the Iranian regime’s concerted efforts to establish a military foothold right in America’s backyard. The ramifications of this complacency are profound. The Iranian regime, which, since it began in 1979, has been calling for “Death to America,” now has ballistic missiles which it says can reach the US, and claims to have a hypersonic missile that, according to one report, “Can Destroy US In 40 sec.”

by Blazingcatfur•March 16, 2024March 16, 2024•0•Iran, South America, USA

Iranian Threat in America’s Backyard, Thanks to The Biden Administration

Thanks to the Biden Administration’s apparently lack of policy towards Latin America as well as the Administration’s policy of appeasement towards Iran’s Islamist regime, the ruling mullahs have been freely violating sanctions and increasing their influence in America’s backyard without facing any consequences.

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2023July 8, 2023•0•Cuba, Iran, South America, USA

Iran Deepens Its Presence Inside Latin America

One of the critical threats to the US national peace and security is that the Iranian regime, while using Latin America as a sanctuary, has been increasing its presence and terror cells there.

As protests continue in Iran, the Iranian regime’s officials are in the process of obtaining passports and asylum from Latin American countries, particularly from Venezuela, at the doorstep of the United States.

by Blazingcatfur•January 7, 2023January 7, 2023•0•Iran, South America

Latin America: ‘China’s Backyard’

China is deepening its involvement in Latin America and the Caribbean, as Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ma Zhaoxu made clear last year at a summit between China and Latin American and Caribbean states.

The summit resulted in a joint action plan that will not only tighten economic cooperation between China and Latin America and the Caribbean in various fields such as agriculture, food, science, technology, industry, infrastructure, aviation, energy and tourism, but also deepen China’s influence in the region through cooperation in education, research and sports. The action plan directly mentions, for instance, that Latin American and Caribbean members of the forum “support China in hosting the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games” that took place in March.

by Blazingcatfur•November 22, 2022November 22, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", South America

The Latin American Left Is in Flames

Caught between inflation, falling public revenues, and their own demagoguery, the continent’s new socialist leaders are at risk of being crushed.

We are witnessing a revolution, it seems. The six largest countries on the Latin-American continent have gone over to the Left—a Left of words and promises that, unsurprisingly, are already proving untenable. In Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or AMLO, has been president since 2018. A career politician, he renounced his socialist commitments at the outset of his presidency to save the country’s ruined public finances. But other, less experienced leaders on the left, prisoners of their ideology and of their programs, as generous as they are demagogic, already find themselves up against the wall of reality: the economy, for its part, does not lie.

by Blazingcatfur•August 10, 2022August 10, 2022•0•South America

Under Biden, U.S. Pushed Further Back in Latin America

China has overtaken the United States in trade terms “in large swathes of Latin America,” according to a recent Reuters analysis of UN trade data from 2015-2021. Reuters added that “outside of Mexico, the top U.S. trade partner, China has overtaken the United States in Latin America and widened the gap last year.”

Although US President Joe Biden pledged to give Latin America higher priority, “current and former officials told Reuters that the United States had been slow to take concrete action and that China, a major buyer of grains and metals, simply offered more to the region in terms of trade and investment.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 6, 2022July 6, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", South America, USA

China unveils plan to ‘take over’ Latin America

Chinese Communist Party officials have unveiled an “action plan for cooperation” with Latin American countries that amounts to a “comprehensive” plan to cultivate influence and threaten American interests, following a new ministerial with the nearest neighbors of the United States.

“The Chinese don’t say, ‘We want to take over Latin America,’ but they clearly set out a multidimensional engagement strategy, which, if successful, would significantly expand their leverage and produce enormous intelligence concerns for the United States,” U.S. Army War College research professor Evan Ellis, a former member of the State Department policy planning staff, told the Washington Examiner.

by Blazingcatfur•January 2, 2022January 2, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", South America

China in Latin America – Part 1

In 2000, China’s trade with Latin America amounted to $12 billion. By 2019, the number had grown to a staggering $330 billion.

The astounding growth is suggestive of how China’s influence in Latin America has deepened over the past two decades.

China’s involvement in Latin America clearly seems to be translating into control, and not just of national resources. “In the past four years, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Panama have each switched their recognition from Taiwan to China”, TIME Magazine wrote in February.

by Blazingcatfur•December 23, 2021December 23, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", South America

China’s Challenge to the Monroe Doctrine

Until recently the U.S. seemed serious about enforcing the Monroe Doctrine, but China has now established a foothold throughout Latin America. What gives?

Time magazine reported earlier this year that China is South America’s top trading partner. Chinese companies, according to correspondents Ciara Nugent and Charlie Campbell, invested nearly $13 billion in Latin America in 2019, while China is a major consumer of Latin American exports, purchasing “beef from Uruguay, copper from Chile, oil from Colombia, and soya from Brazil.” State-controlled Chinese tech companies (Huawei, ZTE, Dahua, Hikvision) have made inroads in Latin America, Time reports, that will allow “Beijing to dictate the rules of commerce for a generation.” And China’s political influence has spread to the Caribbean Sea and Central America, where the Dominican Republic, Panama, and El Salvador switched their formal recognition from Taiwan to China.

by Blazingcatfur•October 23, 2021October 23, 2021•0•"China - Communist Slave State", South America, USA