Latin Americans Already Have a Serious Partner — and It’s Not Trump

Dr. Stuenkel, a German Brazilian political scientist, has written extensively about Latin America, geopolitics and international relations.

On Saturday, President Trump met with leaders from across Latin America and the Caribbean for the so-called Shield of the Americas Summit in Florida. The meeting, which largely centered on the fight against organized crime, was another high-profile attempt by the Trump administration to claim geopolitical primacy in the Western Hemisphere — a goal that made the top of last year’s National Security Strategy and has been referred to as the Donroe Doctrine.

But the event did little more than reveal the limits of Mr. Trump’s regional........

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