Trump 2.0 and the Changing Dynamics of US-Latin American Relations: Assessing Bilateral Relations in an Era Driven by Alignment or Opposition to Trump
hosted by Professor
Jacqueline Mazza
Jacqueline Mazza, Francisco Enrique Gonzalez Gonzalez, Guido Sandleris
This seminar will assess the dramatic shifts and realignments of Latin America's relationship with the United States in just 18 months of the Trump second term. It will focus on the now emerging more personalistic bilateral relations of the favored Trump BFFs: Argentina (Millei), El Salvador (Bukele) and Chile (Kast) to Mexico's delicate middle course (Scheinbaum) to Venezuela and Cuba who face the most dramatic changes and pressures following the capture of Nicolas Maduro and U.S. direct oversight of the U.S.-approved Delcy Rodriguez administration. In reviewing these rapid changes in regional bilateral relations, the seminar will draw out major new trends including the hyper-militarization of U.S. drug policy, U.S. control of Latin American energy and economic assets, and the openings provided to China and Russia by U.S. actions.
