Marco Rubio, Secretary of State and one of the principal architects of America First foreign policy, is the subject of every article under this tag. They follow his diplomacy in Latin America, where he confronts the cartels, the Cuban regime and the leftist governments, his positions on China, Iran and the globalist institutions, and his exchanges with allies and adversaries alike. Readers will find analysis of how Rubio turns the president’s doctrine into daily practice, the geopolitics behind each visit and statement, and the results his pressure produces. Every decision is judged by the question Rubio asks himself: does it serve the United States.
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.
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 AfD victory in Saxony-Anhalt is the biggest in the party's history: a projected 44 percent, more than double its 2021 result, while Merz's CDU lost more than half its voters. Yet the establishment may still lock the winners out with its firewall. Behind the revolt: a shrinking economy, the Volkswagen cuts, and the Magdeburg attack.
Iran war update: 14 nights of American attacks on Iran, and Iranian retaliation against US bases in Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait. Two sea straits are blocked, oil touched 100 dollars, and China cut its Iranian crude purchases by 40 percent. Discover why the Saudis finally attacked the Houthis and why Tehran is begging for a deal.
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.
A Chinese officer clubbed a Filipino sailor at Second Thomas Shoal just two days before Beijing promised peace at the ASEAN summit in Manila. ASEAN weak diplomacy produces careful documents while China escalates and the whole region quietly arms itself. Here is what happened, who attended, and why deterrence is the only answer.
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.
President Trump declared a US Hormuz toll of 20 percent on all cargo shipped through the strait, naming America the guardian of the waterway. Iran's foreign minister mocked the move but agreed with the premise. Oil prices jumped over 7 percent as the world waits to see who ends up paying to keep the Persian Gulf open, stirring debate.
Colombia election results confirm De la Espriella's win, but Petro refuses to accept it and even calls Cepeda the real president. The U.S. and twelve allies just warned Petro to respect the vote, while the president elect plans a military garrison inauguration to honor Colombia's soldiers and police, and the region keeps shifting right.
China invested for two decades while Washington looked away. Now Uruguay warns Europe to ratify Mercosur or lose South America to Beijing. A hard look at how Washington, Brussels, and China have approached Latin America, and why America needs a real Latin America strategy before it loses the hemisphere for good, before it is too late.
