As Washington revives the spirit of the Monroe Doctrine under a new name, Secretary of State Marco Rubio travels through Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru to meet a generation of right-leaning leaders whose political fortunes are bound to the Trump administration's vision of hemispheric order. The tour is less a diplomatic mission than a consolidation — of alliances, of military frameworks, and of a regional narrative that reframes drug trafficking as terrorism warranting lethal force. At least 227 people have died in US strikes conducted under this doctrine, and the question history will ask is whe
Rubio tours Trump-aligned Latin American leaders as US reasserts regional influence
At least 227 people have been killed in US military strikes on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, with rights groups condemning them as extrajudicial killings; a Colombian earthquake killed at least 330 people.