The Trump administration on Wednesday formally presented what officials described as a new interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine as the guiding framework for U.S. policy in Latin America, urging governments across the region to deepen security cooperation while arguing the strategy is intended to "empower" rather than dominate U.S. partners.
Speaking at the Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas in Cusco, Peru, the Pentagon's top policy official, Elbridge Colby, outlined what he referred to as the "Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine," also known as the "Donroe Doctrine," and described it as "a fundamental change in our approach to the Western Hemisphere."
