The ‘Shield of the Americas’ summit on 7 March 2026 in Doral, Florida. Front row: Kamla Persad-Bissessa of Trinidad and Tobago, Santiago Peña of Paraguay, Luis Abinader of the Dominican Republic, Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, Donald Trump, Mohamed Irfaan Ali of Guyana, Rodrigo Chaves Robles of Costa Rica and Daniel Noboa of Ecuador. Back row: Rodrigo Paz Pereira of Bolivia, Javier Milei of Argentina, José Raúl Mulino of Honduras and Jose Antonio Kast of Chile.Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP
Donald Trump changed the channel from Iran to the western hemisphere on Saturday, convening a gathering of Latin American leaders at his Miami-area golf club to discuss regional interests and establishing what he called a “counter-cartel coalition”.
“Just as we formed a coalition to eradicate Isis, we now need a coalition to eradicate the cartels,” he told 12 regional leaders gathered at what the White House called the “Shield of the Americas” summit.
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