Category Americas Geopolitics

Satellite-style view of the Western Hemisphere at night, with North and South America lit by city lights and a brilliant white hub over Central America sending glowing lines of connection across the oceans.

Americas Geopolitics explores how power, resources, and alliances shape relations across North, Central, and South America. This category covers US influence, regional organizations, trade blocs, migration, security cooperation, and how states in the hemisphere navigate global rivals, climate risks, and shifting economic dependencies

The Trump Administration’s Venezuelan Intervention: Legal Justifications, Resource Interests, and MAGA Politics

Nighttime street raid in Caracas showing Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores being escorted by armed soldiers between police cars with flashing lights, helicopters overhead, Trump observing from an oil-field command tent, and a toppled Lady Justice statue sinking into an oil spill.

On January 3, 2026, in a military operation code-named "Absolute Resolve," the United States conducted a dramatic raid on Caracas, Venezuela, resulting in the forcible abduction of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. The operation, involving 150 aircraft deployed from approximately 20 bases and conducted by U.S. special forces, marked the most aggressive military action of President Donald Trump's tenure.

The EU-Mercosur Agreement: A Quarter-Century Delay and the Price of Institutional Quicksand

Symbolic illustration of a trade and climate deal between the European Union and Mercosur, showing crowds walking on a golden path between a star-covered Europe and a green, leafy Earth, with shaking hands in the center and regional maps on both sides.

Without fundamental reforms that move it closer to this federal model, the European Union will remain at risk of missing strategic opportunities, reacting too slowly to geopolitical shifts, and ceding influence to more agile and decisive global rivals. The EU-Mercosur story should therefore be seen as a warning: in a world that does not wait, institutional paralysis is a direct threat to Europe's long-term prosperity and security.