Trump defines (for now) his policy for Venezuela in the Great Game

The recent actions of the Donald Trump administration in financial and commercial matters show the shaping of its foreign policy, perhaps definitive, which is combined with the intention to reconfigure the hegemony of the United States in a world whose tectonic plates in geopolitics and geoeconomics are irremediably changing. With regard to Venezuela, the measures that involve it, or that directly attack it, seem to have the aim of neutralizing …

The tariff war also splattered the southern hemisphere. Nicaragua and Venezuela are the economies with the highest rates of 18% and 15%, respectively.

The aggressive rhetoric and the strategy of maximum pressure adopted by the Trump administration against Latin America mark the return of a more interventionist and coercive foreign policy on the part of the United States. Particularly aimed at countering Chinese influence, this approach could, however, in the longer term, compromise US interests in the region while playing the game of China. The diplomatic crisis will have been of short duratio…

Donald Trump's new trade policy targets Latin America and retaliates against tariffs charged by other countries. Learn more