US President Donald Trump will host Latin American leaders invited from Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, El Salvador, Ecuador and Honduras at a summit in Miami later this year, a White House official revealed
US President Donald Trump will host Latin American leaders invited from Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, El Salvador, Ecuador and Honduras at a summit in Miami later this year, a White House official told AFP on Wednesday.
The meeting comes after US forces recently captured and overthrew Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and Honduras swore in a conservative president who won his election with Trump’s backing.
Some among the invitees, including Argentina’s Javier Milei and El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, are firm Trump allies.
The official did not immediately provide details on the meeting, which is set to be held on March 7.
But a report in Argentine media said that the summit would focus on countering China, a major Latin American trading partner.
The United States under Trump has sought to reassert its dominance in the Americas, and has jousted on trade with China, the world’s second-largest economy, with a tariff and trade war.
Trump described the raid to seize Maduro as an update of the Monroe Doctrine, the 1823 declaration by fifth US president James Monroe that Latin America was closed to other powers.
Weeks earlier, White House policymakers had given more intellectual gloss for the same idea in a national security strategy that announced a “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine.
The policy, the strategy said, will authorize US intervention in Latin America for goals such as seizing strategic assets, fighting crime or ending migration, one of Trump’s top domestic goals.
It was not immediately clear who among the invitees would be attending, or if other leaders were also invited.
The presidents of Brazil, Colombia and Mexico are major left-wing Latin American players and have had bristly relations with Trump.
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