Conservative analysis of Latin America’s political, economic, and security developments, including China’s expanding footprint, socialist movements, and threats to U.S. strategic interests in the region
Peruvian senator Mirtha Vásquez will fly to China on the Chinese Embassy's dime, right when senators should be meeting their voters. Beijing courts Peru with free trips, a megaport and more than 30,000 million dollars in investment, while a 2023 paid junket went unpunished and a president lost his office over a dinner with a Chinese businessman. Nobody flies you to Beijing for nothing.
Flávio Bolsonaro finished first in the Brazil elections, 47 percent to Lula's 45, after every major poll had Lula ahead. The runoff is October 25. Behind the numbers: a father serving 27 years, a judge who shut down X, a Congress that moved right, and a candidate offering Washington rare earths and a seat in the Shield of the Americas.
Colombia's president sent his vice president to the UN with a definition of globalism that names the problem: nations treated as obstacles to a uniformity decided above them. Milei, Fujimori and Kast spoke in the same key, Trump told the ICC's members to resign, and Petro's old speeches show what changed. UN and globalism, on trial.
Trump met Delcy Rodríguez for fifteen minutes in New York and told her elections must come "at the end of the day." Rubio explained the order: debt restructuring, institutions and a durable republic before the vote. Lula calls it lost sovereignty. Chomcho.com looks at the Venezuela transition, the diaspora, Colombia, oil and China.
Washington is preparing to move most of its MQ-9 Reaper drones from Africa to South America for counter-drug work. It is the Donroe Doctrine in hardware: a coalition of fourteen governments, joint operations with Ecuador, a new hard line in Bogotá, and a Secretary of State who found willing allies instead of creating them.
The leftist Chamber of Deputies voted to interpellate Foreign Minister Pérez Mackenna over the Strait of Magellan, the exit from the Non-Aligned Movement, and the friendship with Trump and Milei. Chile foreign policy under Kast answers the political theater with six months of results, borders controlled and inflation tamed.
Colombia has a new president, and the change is historic. Abelardo de la Espriella took his oath in Cali while police defused a bus loaded with explosives and Petro refused to attend. Security, energy, Israel, and a full alliance with Washington now lead the agenda. The conservative wave in Latin America has found its next leader.
The Brazil Argentina crisis reached a historic point when Brazil withdrew its ambassador after Milei called Lula a convict and a thief in Sao Paulo. Behind the anger stands Judge de Moraes, his censorship, and the persecution of Bolsonaro. The October election will decide what comes next for Brazil, Argentina and America itself.
Keiko Fujimori was sworn in on July 28 as the first woman elected president of Peru. The Fujimori first 100 days will be judged on a historic wave of crime and a super El Niño. Her plan includes a mega-prison, faceless judges, a military crackdown and closer security ties with the Trump administration. Can she finish a full term?
Nicaragua without elections sounds like breaking news, but the pretense is what finally died. Ortega, 80, announced there will never be another vote, his wife rules as co-president, and his congress will write it into the constitution. Discover the fear behind the wall of laws and why China, Russia, Cuba and Venezuela stay silent.
Mexico cartel corruption reaches state police, a general, and a governor, following the murder of a mayor who dared to speak out. See why Mexico still leads the world in violent cities, and why the president's own words about war and law raise hard questions that Washington and Mexican citizens alike are asking today.
The Pentagon has studied real military options against Cuba, including an air assault by the 101st Airborne Division. The Cuba military threat is no longer theory: 300 Russian and Iranian drones, advisers from Tehran in Havana, and China's protection. We report the facts, then evaluate the reasons and consequences of US action.
