Earlier this week, the administration of President Donald Trump announced the imposition of a 25 percent tariff on imports from Mexico only to decrease some of them again. On March 6, the US President announced that he displays all products that are part of the US Trade Agreement, Mexico and Cananga (USMCA) for a month.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defense continued its military accumulation along the southern border, with an additional 3,000 soldiers.

Trump claimed that these measures are necessary to stop the flow of fentanel and people who are not trying to cross into the United States from Mexico. However, the data shows that the death of the fentanel decreased significantly in the past year, as well as the number of border crossings.

So what is the real motive for Trump?

First, Trump tries to turn attention from the chaos of his internal economic policies. Although he carried a campaign to “reform” the American economy, the inflation rose to 3 percent, the confidence of the consumer remained shaky, and gasoline prices continued to rise, and thousands of federal employees were demobilized.

Second, and most importantly, Trump is trying to impose the Monroe doctrine, as Mexico can bully, and thus the rest of Latin America, to comply with his new era from the diplomacy of the non -thermal compound without fear of revenge.

These are dangerous times for Mexico and Latin America. The signs of strategic and military accumulation are clear: Naming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America”, putting signs on the eight Mexican cartoons as terrorist organizations, escalating the tasks of CIA Secret Drone deeply inside Mexican territory, and storing each option.

The deployment of escalating forces and rhetoric creates conditions for an American military penetration in Mexico. If one happens, it will be appropriate with the long history of the United States’ aggression against his southern neighbor and Latin America as a whole, which started 200 years ago with the Monroe doctrine.

In 1823, President James Monroe at the time presented a policy, under the guise of European colonialism opposed in Western football, sought to unify American superiority over the region.

The doctrine was a starting point for the American imperial expansion on the northern territories in Mexico during the Mexican American War (1846-1848), when the United States carried out a huge land, taking over the lands that are part of the states of today in California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colomodo.

Then the US military used the Mexican Revolution Revolution (1910-1920) as an excuse to invade its southern neighbor twice.

The doctrine served to justify the American invasion of the hobby, Puerto Rico, Haiti and Cuba, as well as various secret interventions throughout Latin America.

Today, while the United States is facing challenges in its global domination from China and Russia in the Americas, the Monroe doctrine appeared as a dedicated to the re -delivery of American hegemony over the region.

Mexico is among the first to suffer for some reason. The country does not occupy a strategic location-sharing the borders of 3000 km (2000 miles) with the United States-but also has the second largest economy in Latin America, with GDP $ 1.79 trillion. Although the economy of Mexico is closely related to the United States, it has diversified its trading partners, with the enemy of China-the American Aden-being its second largest commercial partner with a commercial volume of $ 100 billion.

In 2024, the Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) reached 477 million dollars, an increase of $ 13.6 million in 2008. In 2023, there were reports that Mexico had expressed interest in joining China’s doves, which was rapidly wasting by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. However, this year, Brazilian President Louise Insio Lula da Silva, as well as Uruguay and Colombia, invited to join the upcoming BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro in July.

Mexico is currently headed by left -wing President Claudia Shinabom Prado, a cold but fierce leader, praised by its peers. She has approximately 80 percent approval and has repeatedly mentioned that she will defend Mexico’s sovereignty.

In an attempt to show that she is ready to cooperate and avoid customs tariffs, her government succeeded in increasing drug control operations, turning into 29 high -level kartel leaders to the United States and announcing a record number of arrests and seizures of fentanel and other illegal drugs last month.

But Trump is not really concerned with addressing the complex problem of drug smuggling and migration that his country created with drug addiction and cheap work. The US President really wants to use military accumulation on the border to intimidate the Mexican President and reduce the impact of China in Mexico.

Whether sheinbauum will fall into a line that remains to see. Meanwhile, Trump will continue to use the pretext of war on drugs and immigration to create the Monroe doctrine on Mexico and Latin America. However, it threatens to return the Western hemisphere to more than 200 years.

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