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.
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.
The Founders were not isolationists. They were global traders who guarded their political sovereignty jealously. Washington, Jefferson, and Monroe built a foreign policy compass that still points true 250 years later. From the Barbary Coast to the Strait of Hormuz, the principles endure. Founders foreign policy and America First share the same principles, separated only by history.
