{"id":5939,"date":"2026-01-18T07:18:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asadmirza.in\/?p=5939"},"modified":"2026-01-18T07:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:18:44","slug":"american-onslaught-on-latin-america%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asadmirza.in\/?p=5939","title":{"rendered":"American Onslaught on Latin America\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div><p class=\"pvc_stats all \" data-element-id=\"5939\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.0\" viewBox=\"0 0 502 315\" preserveAspectRatio=\"xMidYMid meet\"><g transform=\"translate(0,332) scale(0.1,-0.1)\" fill=\"\" stroke=\"none\"><path d=\"M2394 3279 l-29 -30 -3 -207 c-2 -182 0 -211 15 -242 39 -76 157 -76 196 0 15 31 17 60 15 243 l-3 209 -33 29 c-26 23 -41 29 -80 29 -41 0 -53 -5 -78 -31z\"\/><path d=\"M3085 3251 c-45 -19 -58 -50 -96 -229 -47 -217 -49 -260 -13 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1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/raksha-anirveda.com\/american-onslaught-on-latin-america\/\n\">https:\/\/raksha-anirveda.com\/american-onslaught-on-latin-america\/<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.punjabtodaynews.com\/american-onslaught-on-latin-america\/\n\">https:\/\/www.punjabtodaynews.com\/american-onslaught-on-latin-america\/<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kipnews.in\/newsdet.aspx?q=44558\">https:\/\/www.kipnews.in\/newsdet.aspx?q=44558<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>During the past one year, perhaps no other man has garnered so much news headlines and space as the American President Donald Trump. This is not due to any of his humane policies or pro-people announcements, but based solely on his quirky and unpredictable executive orders undermining the global political, diplomatic, and economic rules-based governance or a lack of comprehension on how to run a superpower.<br>After a hiatus of four years, Trump came back as the 47th American president, promising to get the 14 years-old Russia-Ukraine war ended within 24 hours of assuming office, though nothing of that sort has happened in the last one year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Immediately after assuming office, he started a whimsical Tariff War against almost every nation and vowed to colonialise Greenland and runover Mexico. The latest folly, which this foaming at the mouth American president has committed is a completely flagrant violation of international norms and the respect for any sovereign country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump\u2019s second term is marked by aggressive foreign actions, including the military capture of Venezuela\u2019s President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and threats toward Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and renewed interest in Greenland, sparking global backlash and concerns over US power projection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At his inauguration in January 2025, Donald Trump pledged to be a \u201cpeacemaker and unifier\u201d. Although he has claimed to have brokered several \u2013 and in some cases, short-lived \u2013 peace deals including that of the self-claimed one between India and Pakistan, he also carried out military interventions with relish, bombing seven countries during the first year of his second term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his first stint as US president, Trump dramatically ramped up strikes against jihadists in Somalia. He has intensified this air campaign again since returning to the White House, with 118 strikes conducted in 2025 \u2013 more than the Bush, Obama and Biden administrations combined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump launched a wave of air and naval strikes against targets in Houthi-controlled Yemen in early 2025, pledging to \u201cannihilate\u201d the Iran-backed militia group after it hit Israel and targeted Red Sea shipping in retaliation for the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In March last year a US airstrike killed a senior leader of Islamic State (IS) in Iraq. The operation was carried out with Iraq\u2019s intelligence services. Trump wrote on social media that it exhibited \u201cpeace through strength\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During Israel\u2019s short war with Iran in June, the US struck three Iranian nuclear facilities. B-2 stealth bombers dropped bunker-busters and cruise missiles were launched from a sub. Trump claimed the country\u2019s nuclear programme had been \u201ccompletely and totally obliterated\u201d, although the extent of the damage is still unclear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After IS killed two US soldiers and a US civilian interpreter in central Syria on December 13, 2025 Trump authorised more than 70 strikes on the group. His rebranded \u201cwar secretary\u201d, Pete Hegseth, described them as a \u201cdeclaration of vengeance\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nigeria A US ship stationed in the Gulf of Guinea launched more than a dozen cruise missiles at two IS training camps in Nigeria on Christmas Day. Trump said the aim was to protect Christians who Maga figures say are being targeted for their faith. Nigeria\u2019s government denies this, but acquiesced to the strikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US began attacking alleged drug boats off Venezuela\u2019s Caribbean coast in September, carrying out 33 known strikes and killing at least 112 people so far. US forces also docked two sanctioned oil tankers, pursued a third and hit a Venezuelan port facility with a drone before last Saturday\u2019s operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>America against Venezuela<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s second term as United States president is increasingly being defined by an aggressive projection of power far beyond America\u2019s borders. Following the dramatic US military operation in Venezuela and the capture of President Maduro, Trump has signalled that his ambitions stretch across the Western Hemisphere and into the Arctic, triggering alarm from Latin America to Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has also mused about the idea of kidnapping another president, Colombia\u2019s Gustavo Petro, and said Venezuela\u2019s vice president Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, will suffer \u201ca fate worse than Maduro\u201d if she fails to fall in line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, Greenland is not the only country feeling the pressure. Trump\u2019s rhetoric following the Venezuela operation has been especially sharp toward Colombia. Even as US forces were bringing Maduro to New York, Trump warned Colombian President Gustavo Petro to \u201cwatch his ass\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maduro\u2019s ouster has been justified in the name of combating \u201cnarco-terrorism.\u201d He has been called the \u201cnarco dictator\u201d of a \u201cnarco regime.\u201d Maduro\u2019s government was indeed up to its neck in drug smuggling. But the stress placed on this issue reflects a persistent failing in the US approach to Latin America\u2014what we could perhaps call narcolepsy. This seems to be the greatest undoing of the US foreign policy, to remain sound asleep when it comes to Latin America except when it is occasionally awakened to deal with narco-trafficking. Otherwise, public opinion in the United States studiously ignores the one region, excluding Mexico, with which the Us has run a consistent trade surplus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump\u2019s focus on Latin America<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump\u2019s wrath against Latin American countries started with his spat against Mexico and operations to take control of Panama Canal.<br>But why is Trump adopting an aggressive posture against the Latin American countries? The reason mostly is based on his temperament to treat every issue in economic terms and his promise of MAGA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not a hidden fact that in the past 25 years, China has made inroads into very Latin American country just like Asia and Africa, China runs its bases and companies from every Latin American country. So, Trump\u2019s gameplan is not just to occupy or subjugate Venezuela just for its oil, but as evident from his statements he is basically trying to ramp-up the American presence in every Latin American country.<br>Why? Because most of these nations also form the backbone of the Chinese expansionism and its control of the global rare earth minerals. Mexio is the largest global producer of Silver, which it largely exports to China and with the imminent Chinese export order banning export of Silver from China, it will ultimately create a Chinese hegemony over the global supply of Silver. Further Bolivia has vast resources of Lithium and Chile and Peru have large deposits of Copper.<br>Trump knows very well that if the American hold over the global AI, supercomputers and other technological equipment must continue then it has to be done with the control of the global supply chain of the rare earth minerals.<br>So, in essence it is not a strategic or geopolitics blitzkrieg, which Doanld Trump has launched against the Latin American countries but this bombastic show is essentially for the control of the global rare earth minerals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"pvc_stats all \" data-element-id=\"5939\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.0\" viewBox=\"0 0 502 315\" preserveAspectRatio=\"xMidYMid meet\"><g transform=\"translate(0,332) scale(0.1,-0.1)\" fill=\"\" stroke=\"none\"><path d=\"M2394 3279 l-29 -30 -3 -207 c-2 -182 0 -211 15 -242 39 -76 157 -76 196 0 15 31 17 60 15 243 l-3 209 -33 29 c-26 23 -41 29 -80 29 -41 0 -53 -5 -78 -31z\"\/><path d=\"M3085 3251 c-45 -19 -58 -50 -96 -229 -47 -217 -49 -260 -13 -295 52 -53 146 -42 177 20 16 31 87 366 87 410 0 70 -86 122 -155 94z\"\/><path d=\"M1751 3234 c-13 -9 -29 -31 -37 -50 -12 -29 -10 -49 21 -204 19 -94 39 -189 45 -210 14 -50 54 -80 110 -80 34 0 48 6 76 34 21 21 34 44 34 59 0 14 -18 113 -40 219 -37 178 -43 195 -70 221 -36 32 -101 37 -139 11z\"\/><path d=\"M1163 3073 c-36 -7 -73 -59 -73 -102 0 -56 133 -378 171 -413 34 -32 83 -37 129 -13 70 36 67 87 -16 290 -86 209 -89 214 -129 231 -35 14 -42 15 -82 7z\"\/><path d=\"M3689 3066 c-15 -9 -33 -30 -42 -48 -48 -103 -147 -355 -147 -375 0 -98 131 -148 192 -74 13 15 57 108 97 206 80 196 84 226 37 273 -30 30 -99 39 -137 18z\"\/><path d=\"M583 2784 c-38 -19 -67 -74 -58 -113 9 -42 211 -354 242 -373 16 -10 45 -18 66 -18 51 0 107 52 107 100 0 39 -1 41 -124 234 -80 126 -108 162 -133 173 -41 17 -61 16 -100 -3z\"\/><path d=\"M4250 2784 c-14 -9 -74 -91 -133 -183 -95 -150 -107 -173 -107 -213 0 -55 33 -94 87 -104 67 -13 90 8 211 198 130 202 137 225 78 284 -27 27 -42 34 -72 34 -22 0 -50 -8 -64 -16z\"\/><path d=\"M2275 2693 c-553 -48 -1095 -270 -1585 -649 -135 -104 -459 -423 -483 -476 -23 -49 -22 -139 2 -186 73 -142 361 -457 571 -626 285 -228 642 -407 990 -497 242 -63 336 -73 660 -74 310 0 370 5 595 52 535 111 1045 392 1455 803 122 121 250 273 275 326 19 41 19 137 0 174 -41 79 -309 363 -465 492 -447 370 -946 591 -1479 653 -113 14 -422 18 -536 8z m395 -428 c171 -34 330 -124 456 -258 112 -119 167 -219 211 -378 27 -96 24 -300 -5 -401 -72 -255 -236 -447 -474 -557 -132 -62 -201 -76 -368 -76 -167 0 -236 14 -368 76 -213 98 -373 271 -451 485 -162 444 86 934 547 1084 153 49 292 57 452 25z m909 -232 c222 -123 408 -262 593 -441 76 -74 138 -139 138 -144 0 -16 -233 -242 -330 -319 -155 -123 -309 -223 -461 -299 l-81 -41 32 46 c18 26 49 83 70 128 143 306 141 649 -6 957 -25 52 -61 116 -79 142 l-34 47 45 -20 c26 -10 76 -36 113 -56z m-2057 25 c-40 -58 -105 -190 -130 -263 -110 -324 -59 -707 132 -981 25 -35 42 -64 37 -64 -19 0 -241 119 -326 174 -188 122 -406 314 -532 468 l-58 71 108 103 c185 178 428 349 672 473 66 33 121 60 123 61 2 0 -10 -19 -26 -42z\"\/><path d=\"M2375 1950 c-198 -44 -350 -190 -395 -379 -18 -76 -8 -221 19 -290 114 -284 457 -406 731 -260 98 52 188 154 231 260 27 69 37 214 19 290 -38 163 -166 304 -326 360 -67 23 -215 33 -279 19z\"\/><\/g><\/svg><\/i> &nbsp;27&nbsp;total views<\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;27&nbsp;total views https:\/\/raksha-anirveda.com\/american-onslaught-on-latin-america\/ https:\/\/www.punjabtodaynews.com\/american-onslaught-on-latin-america\/ https:\/\/www.kipnews.in\/newsdet.aspx?q=44558 During the past one year, perhaps no other man has garnered so much news headlines and space as the American President Donald Trump. This is not due to any of his humane policies or pro-people announcements, but based solely on his quirky and unpredictable executive orders undermining the global political, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[194,83],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asadmirza.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asadmirza.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asadmirza.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asadmirza.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asadmirza.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asadmirza.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5942,"href":"https:\/\/asadmirza.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions\/5942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asadmirza.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asadmirza.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asadmirza.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}