The Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’
The ‘Donroe Doctrine’: This is Trump’s neocolonial plan for Latin America
Geopolitical Economy by Ben Norton • October 27, 2027
The Donald Trump administration seeks to forcibly impose the US empire’s hegemony in Latin America. While hypocritically using “war on drugs/terror” rhetoric, it is reviving the colonial Monroe Doctrine, which top officials now call the Donroe Doctrine.
The Donald Trump administration is waging war on Venezuela, but this is part of a larger political war on Latin America.
In the first year of Trump’s second term as president, the US government has:
- killed dozens of people without charges and trial in US military strikes on boats in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific, executing humble fishermen from not only Venezuela but also Colombia and Trinidad and Tobago;
- imposed sanctions on the democratically elected left-wing president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro;
- hit Brazil with 50% tariffs, one of the highest rates on Earth, to try to destabilize democratically elected left-wing President Lula da Silva;
- threatened to forcibly “take over” and colonize the Panama Canal, in violation of the Central American nation’s sovereignty;
- tightened the illegal, six-decade blockade of Cuba; and
- waged a regime-change war aimed at overthrowing the government of Venezuela, and ordered the CIA to kidnap or even assassinate its President Nicolás Maduro.
- Those are the sticks of Trump’s new Big Stick Policy, aimed at Latin America’s left-wing leaders.
As for the carrots, Trump has pledged to economically bail out right-wing US allies in the region.
For instance, the Trump administration offered $40 billion to try to save Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei, a close Trump ally who has overseen a severe economic crisis.
The US empire’s goals in Latin America
The US government has always meddled in Latin America’s internal affairs. This is far from new.
The United States overthrew at least 41 governments in Latin America from 1898 to 1994, according to research by Columbia University historian John Coatsworth.
In the past three decades, Washington has backed dozens more coups, coup attempts, regime-change operations, and “color revolutions” in the region.
The US military has intervened in every single country in Latin America, according to data from the Congressional Research Service. (The only exception is French Guiana, which is a colony of France.)
US imperialism has always been bipartisan in Washington, and has continued under both Republican and Democratic presidents.
However, Donald Trump has brought back the most overt, aggressive form of interventionism.
In its flagrant attacks on the sovereignty of Latin America, the US empire has three main goals.
Exploit the region’s resources
One, the US wants to exploit Latin America’s plentiful natural resources, including oil and natural gas; gold, iron ore, lithium, copper, and other minerals; agricultural products; and fresh water. (As the climate crisis worsens, water will become increasingly important geopolitically.)
Trump has been very open about the fact that he wants US corporations to take over and profit from the region’s natural resources.
At a 2023 rally, Trump boasted that he wanted to “take over” Venezuela, and “we would have gotten all that oil.”
Cut off relations with China
The second goal of the US empire is to prevent all governments in Latin America from having close ties with China. Washington would like to cut off regional relations with Russia and Iran as well, but China is the top priority.
China is already the number one trading partner of South America, and economic exchange is growing more and more by the year.
The United States is waging a Second Cold War, or Cold War Two, which seeks to isolate China. US strategists want to turn not only Latin America but all of the western hemisphere into an imperial “sphere of influence.”
It is not a coincidence that, in the first trip that Trump’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio took abroad, he went to Panama, where he successfully pressured the country to withdraw from China’s global infrastructure project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
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And upon thy sword shalt thou depend, entering at every place: yet thou shalt be supple and credulous, and be in subjection to thy brother; but it will be that when his sons become evil, and fall from keeping the commandments of the law, thou shalt break his yoke of servitude from off thy neck. Genesis 27:40 Jonathan
“And Esau harbored hatred in his heart against Jacob, his brother, because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him.
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“Rather, I will wait until the days of mourning for my father have passed, and then I will kill Jacob my brother, and I will be the sole heir.’” Genesis 27:41 Jonathan
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A Prophecy of Esau and Jacob 