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Over the years, the United States has maintained significant influence in Latin America due to its economic, political, and security ties. However, the return of Donald Trump to the leadership of the United States has generated new debates about the nature of this relationship. Because his approach, based on nationalism, the protection of U.S. interests, and a more transactional foreign policy, raises a question: Does our region continue to depend on the United States or is it seeking greater strategic autonomy? La República. (2025).  Trump busca aumentar influencia de EE.UU en América Latina First we have to consider the political influence: The Trumps administration intensified its interference in our region  electoral processes and governments through a combination of political pressure, strategic economic agreements and military cooperation (Machado, 2026). The most illustrative case was the Panama Canal crisis where Trump declared: "This total swindle of our country will ...

 By: Ronald Marquez, Dharma Gonzales and Julian Palomino. As we close this blog and this semester-long project, we want to use this final post not to analyze a new event, but to look back at everything we have written and ask ourselves: what have we actually learned about international relations by following Donald Trump's second term? When we started this blog, we did so with a simple goal: to understand, as students, how the decisions of a single government could reshape global politics. After several months of posts covering Europe, South America, China, and the institutional architecture of world order, we believe the answer has become much clearer than when we began. A confirmation of Realist logic Almost every case we examined led us back to the same theoretical framework: Realism. Whether we were discussing sanctions on Venezuela, tariffs against European partners, or the escalating rivalry with China, the pattern was consistent. Washington's decisions, time and again, ...

By:Ronald Marquez, Dharma Gonzales and Julian Palomino   Donald Trump’s second term in the United States has represented a pivotal moment that is shaping the course of international politics in recent years. This is due to the fact that many of his major decisions since assuming the leadership of the White House have triggered numerous confrontations with prominent political leaders as well as political organizations, who consistently reject the policies implemented from Washington. We know that this situation can be highly complex to understand; therefore, in this post, we will attempt to explain Donald Trump’s second term from our perspective as International Relations students. The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States follows the term of the Democratic Party led by Joe Biden, whose disappointing performance in the White House led to public fatigue with Biden's party. Consequently, after a remarkable electoral campaign, the Republican leader Donald Trump man...

  By: Ronald Marquez , Julian Palomino and Dharma Gonzales We have good news for our followers, we are made a podcast and this is our first edition We hope everyone like this new program :) 

By Julián Palomino The beginning of Donald Trump’s second term as president in January 2025  marked a great uncertainty and reordering of the international order. While the first period of his administration (2017–2021) was marked by rhetorical frictions and a strong skepticism towards multilateral blocs, the deployment of his “America First” agenda since 2025 has pushed transatlantic ties with European countries and the European Union (EU) into a terrain of maximum tension and defensive pragmatism. Below, we look at the three main pillars that have defined this complex bilateral relationship over the past year and a half. 1. The Conflict of Regulatory and Economic Frameworks. The Trump administration from the earliest days of 2025 took a muscular economic posture based on neoprotectionism, massive deregulation and the pursuit of direct trade reciprocity, departing from the principles of the World Trade Organization (Brookings Institution, 2026). Washington has forced through ...

 By Julián Palomino. Trump’s second term has reconfigured the relationship between the United States and South America from a more pragmatic and transactional logic. In the commercial area, the foreign policy has favoured bilateral agreements and protectionist measures, generating tensions with exporting economies of the region, particularly in areas such as steel, agribusiness, and energy. According to the Congressional Research Service (2024), the government’s trade actions have yielded mixed results, with some countries obtaining particular agreements and others facing constraints that limit their competitiveness in the U.S. market. In the political and security realm, the Trump administration has pushed for a harder line against governments deemed hostile, notably Venezuela, through economic sanctions and diplomatic pressure. Council on Foreign Relations (2025) has observed that this strategy has further divided the region, with some countries advocating for such measures while...