The president Donald Trump said on Saturday alongside Latin American leaders that anarchy in the hemisphere will no longer be tolerated.
The words, spoken this Saturday at the Trump National Doral resort in Miami during the summit titled "Shield of the Americas", reflect the president's intention to establish a military coalition to eliminate “the violence of the cartels.”
The Summit brought together leaders from 12 Latin American and Caribbean nations to formalize a regional coalition against drug trafficking, cartels, illegal migration, and transnational organized crime.
Among the leaders present are Javier Milei (Argentina), Nayib Bukele (El Salvador), Daniel Noboa (Ecuador), Santiago Peña (Paraguay), Luis Abinader (Dominican Republic), José Raúl Mulino (Panama), Rodrigo Chaves (Costa Rica), and Nasry Asfura (Honduras), in addition to representatives from Trinidad and Tobago and Bolivia. Also attending is José Antonio Kast, the president-elect of Chile, who will take office on March 11, becoming the first far-right leader in that country since the return to democracy.
Left-leaning or center-left governments in the region were deliberately excluded: Mexico (Claudia Sheinbaum), Colombia (Gustavo Petro), Brazil (Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva), Nicaragua, and Venezuela. The ideological divide in the hemisphere is thus clearly delineated.
The meeting also discussed Cuba. Trump asserted that his administration "will take care of Cuba" and claimed that the regime is going through its "final moments" due to a lack of money, oil, and international support.
During his intervention to inaugurate the meeting, Trump stated that the Cuban political system is undergoing a terminal crisis and that the situation in the country reflects the exhaustion of the model that has governed the island for decades.
“Cuba is at the end of the road, it truly is at the end of the road. They have no money, they have no oil. They have a bad philosophy. They have a bad regime that has been harmful for a long time,” the leader stated before the group of nearly 15 Latin American leaders gathered at the meeting.
"Cuba is in its final moments as it has been. It will have a great new life, but it is in its final moments as it is now." he stated.
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