The Empire Comes Home: Trump, Latin America, and the Authoritarian Revival

Trump Isn’t Just Backing Strongmen. He Is Trying to Be One

Donald Trump isn’t conducting foreign policy. He’s staging a global audition for authoritarianism.

With each new move in Latin America — billion-dollar backroom deals, bombing campaigns, mass deportations to secret prisons — he’s not just helping strongmen. He’s mirroring them, modeling them, learning from them, and desperately trying to be one of them.

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