He March 7the president of United States, Donald Trumpmet in Doral, Floridato like-minded Latin American leaders to sign a proclamation of military cooperation. He April 18the president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sanchezand the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvagathered in Barcelona progressive leaders to promote reform of the multilateral system. The lists of attendees at each meeting do not overlap.
Trump meeting in Doral: military proclamation and 17 adherents
He March 7Trump signed a proclamation that established the Anti-Cartel Coalition of the Americaswith the commitment that participating nations would coordinate military and police efforts to dismantle transnational criminal organizations. That same day, Trump declared that representatives from 17 countries had joined the initial alliance.
He State Department described the meeting as a meeting with “the strongest and most like-minded allies in the hemisphere” with the objective of “promoting strategies that put an end to foreign interference, criminal and narco-terrorist cartels, and illegal and massive immigration.”
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Kristi Noem, designated special envoy for the initiative, specified the operational mandate: “Our objectives will be to destroy the cartels, pursue these narcoterrorists… We are also going to keep our adversaries at bay.” Among those attending were Javier Miley (Argentina), Nayib Bukele (El Salvador), Daniel Noboa (Ecuador), Rodrigo Chaves (Costa Rica), Luis Abinader (Dominican Republic) and José Raúl Mulino (Panama). Mexico, Brazil y Colombia They did not participate.
Barcelona: UN reform and political declaration
The IV Meeting in Defense of Democracydriven from 2024 for Spain and Brazil, brought together the leaders who were absent in Doral on Saturday. Sánchez told attendees that “democracy cannot be taken for granted” and called for the HIM “be renewed, reformed and led by a woman.” Lula, for his part, maintained that it is necessary to “restore the credibility of the UN, which was corroded by the irresponsibility of the permanent members of the Security Council.”
The Barcelona summit also included the South African president Cyril Ramaphosablock member BRICS together with Brazil, which expanded the forum beyond the European-Latin American axis. The meeting was held in parallel with the Global Progressive Mobilisationa meeting of leftist movements in which the governor of Minnesota participated, Tim Waltzand in which messages from the elected mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani.
Different instruments, same weekend in Europe
The difference between both summits is reflected in their specific products: Doral generated a proclamation with binding military commitments and a designated executive figure; Barcelona produced proposals for institutional reform and a draft political declaration, with no announced implementation mechanism.
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The simultaneity with a convention of European far-right forces in Milan completed the panorama: three forums with different agendas on the same weekend, each seeking to articulate a response to the current disorder of the international system.
Trump, who last week again criticized Spain for its refusal to increase defense spending, and Sánchez, who described the normalization of the use of force as “dangerous”, represent in these two summits positions that their respective countries have not been able to reconcile in any shared forum.
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