Is Trump making Latin America great again?
The calamitous war on Iran and continuing failure to rein in Israel have brought United States President Donald Trump collapsing approval ratings and growing public animosity at home. Yet there is one area of his foreign policy that is perhaps serving as a consolation: Latin America.
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- Fact 1: Trump’s posse of Latin American acolytes also includes the likes of Argentina’s Javier Milei, the uniquely coiffed chainsaw-wielding character whose party did smashingly in October midterm elections after Trump conditioned a $40bn bailout of the country on just such an outcome at the polls.
- Fact 2: Trump’s regional winning streak has also extended to Chile, where in 2025 he endorsed the ultimately triumphant presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast, an admirer of notorious Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
- Fact 3: Plus, an August report from Democratic members of the US Congress Joint Economic Committee found that Trump pocketed $2.2bn in 2025, more than tripling his income, “while American families lost $219 billion” and faced “higher costs for everyday essentials”.
The calamitous war on Iran and continuing failure to rein in Israel have brought United States President Donald Trump collapsing approval ratings and growing public animosity at home. Yet there is one area of his foreign policy that is perhaps serving as a consolation: Latin America.
Over the past year and a half, a slew of right-wing leaders has taken power in the region through electoral victories for which Trump has more or less taken personal credit. These leaders appear eager to facilitate the resurgence of US power projection in what Trump has, with characteristic pompousness, called the “Donroe Doctrine”. This, to put it mildly, is not great news for the average Latin American.
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Original source: Al Jazeera
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