Trump, Latin America and China

Trump Faces New Battleground in Latin America With China and Russia
"Our job—where we can'is to provide Latin America with a choice," a U.K. government minister said on Thursday.
Latin American leaders are learning how to handle Trump. Colombia’s president showed how not to do it
A simmering diplomatic stand-off over deportation flights spilled onto social media Sunday, threatening the once close relationship between the US and Colombia and further exposing the anxiety many feel in Latin America towards a second Trump presidency.
China's backyard: will Trump's aggression push Latin America away?
Rift between US and Colombia, threats of tariffs on Mexico, designs on Panama Canal and mass deportations could encourage closer ties with Beijing
Opinion
Trump vs. Colombia teaches Latin America a lesson — don’t mess with the US
With Donald Trump in the White House and Marco Rubio in the State Department, the days of coddling our anti-American Marxist neighbors are over.
Opinion
Opinion: Latin America will not put up with Trump’s new Monroe Doctrine
By treating the countries of the region as if they were still banana republics that would bend over backward to fulfill the U.S. government’s wishes, Trump gravely underestimates their power as a united bloc.
Public spat with Colombia could be sign of Trump’s Latin America strategy
The U.S. embassy in Bogota canceled appointments for Colombians hoping to get visas to enter the United States. The move was the Trump administration’s response to short-lived resistance by the Colombian government to accept deportation flights.
Scalded by Colombia row, Latin America treads carefully with Trump
Latin American leaders have canceled a summit to discuss Donald Trump's migrant crackdown, as the region weighs the risks of openly confronting the firebrand US president.
Trump's handling of Colombia is seen as a warning to other Latin American countries
Trump's clash with the Columbian government sent a signal to Latin American countries about how the new U.S. government may communicate with other governments about migrants.
Strong-Arming Latin America Will Work Until It Doesn’t
So Trump will likely get his way in more cases than not. But he shouldn’t celebrate just yet, because the short-term payoff ...
AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
Colombian migrants deported from the United States arrived in Bogotá. Soldiers marched with torches in Havana to mark the ...
Who is Colombia's President Gustavo Petro, former Marxist guerrilla and country's first leftist leader?
A recent fight over between President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro has brought renewed attention to the ...
Trump’s method for repatriating migrants risks undermining US interests in Latin America
Trump’s uncharitable rhetoric and less-than-civilised treatment of illegal immigrants are, at the very least, likely to fuel ...
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Armed groups are terrorising Colombia’s border with Venezuela
The government has declared a “state of internal commotion” in response to the worst humanitarian crisis in decades ...
How To Drive Latin America Into the Arms of China
It has always surprised me,” wrote the 20th-century Mexican poet and diplomat Octavio Paz, “that in a world of relations as ...
Rubio to take up Trump's Panama gambit, migration crusade in Latam visit
When Marco Rubio arrives in Latin America this weekend on his first foreign trip as Donald Trump's secretary of state, he'll ...
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Donald Trump turns an angry gaze south
Colombia stopped resisting President Donald Trump’s deportation of its unwanted nationals. But America First bullying may yet ...