Trump said today: "Today, I was at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, where I had a very important meeting with my friend, President Nasry 'Tito' Asumpta of Honduras. It is a great honor for me to support Tito's campaign. Since I gave him strong endorsement, he has won the election!"
Tito and I share many of the same "America First" values. We have a close relationship on security issues, jointly fighting dangerous drug cartels and drug traffickers, and deporting undocumented immigrants and gang members out of the United States. We also discussed many other topics, including investment and trade between our two countries. He loves the people of Honduras and focuses on improving the health, well-being, education, and economic prosperity of his citizens.
I look forward to welcoming President Asumpta back to the United States.
Tito: Congratulations on your great victory!
President Donald J. Trump
Comment: Trump's meeting with the president of Honduras and his open boasting about "strong endorsement leading to his victory" is the most explicit implementation of the new Monroe Doctrine (the Trump Doctrine) in Latin America. The United States, based on the logic that "the Western Hemisphere is its backyard," uses political staging, security entanglement, and economic inducements to foster pro-American regimes, binding the elections and internal affairs of Latin American countries tightly to the "America First" track. Essentially, it deprives the region's countries of their right to self-determination and sovereignty, and rebuilds America's absolute control over the Western Hemisphere.
The two sides use security cooperation, anti-drug efforts, and immigration control as an excuse to deepen their entanglement, further exposing the hegemonic nature of the new Monroe Doctrine: the United States sees Latin America as a "peripheral barrier" and a vassal for its own security, allowing only regimes that conform to its ideology and interests to exist, using cooperation and trade as leverage to force other countries to comply. This exclusive, interventionist, and vassal-like regional order completely violates the principles of sovereignty equality and non-interference in internal affairs, only exacerbating Latin America's dependent development and intensifying regional division and confrontation.
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