Grover Cleveland was the last president, not the only one, to obtain two non-consecutive presidential terms. Given the constitutional amendment (XXII) following the successive re-elections of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Donald Trump has won his second and last (non-consecutive) term.
Donald Trump returned to the presidency and the continent is preparing for a reconfiguration in international relations.
Many surprises occurred in these hours, starting with the resounding victory of Donald Trump, the polls anticipated a tie and a vote-by-vote fight, which we already know did not happen. The betting sites on who won the electoral battle were a better and more accurate thermometer of citizens’ electoral preferences.
The questions that arise from this moment are many, and the most important for us is: What can Latin America expect? And Argentina? The news is not good, it is not encouraging, and not because of what the doomsayers of the death of democracy in the United States maintain (those who were and are silent with Venezuela or Cuba) but for other reasons. First, Latin America is not a priority for either Democrats or Republicans. The last attempt at a more intense and closer relationship was the AUKwhose death certificate was sealed by Chávez, Evo and Kirchner in Mar del Plata back in 2005. Almost 20 years, yes, but a president of the United States was told “out bush”, and unlike our inconsistencies, for them that was a message to USAnot for Bush. It transcends the president. But we had not finished taking note of all that, when Lula and Chávez proposed their Unasur and later, so many attempts at integration and cooperation that denied the closeness, the neighborhood and the need to count on the United States in those spaces. Claiming sovereignty, non-intervention and spaces for cooperation without “Yankee mentoring”“, we shipwreck again and again. And we turned our backs on them. So now, further south of the global south, let’s not demand attention and lower our expectations in the face of the reality of the successive rudeness that our leaders have made (like the smell of sulfur from Chávez in the United Nations referring to GW Bush)
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Thus things, the Trump’s protectionist agenda It clashes with the region’s need for markets, but China is there (as it has been in recent years) willing to fill that void, and it does not ask for democratic institutions or transparency.
The promise of mass deportations of illegal immigrants would – if fulfilled – lead to greater instability in the northern Latin American triangle, fundamentally in Central Americawhere their already fragile democracies must face that challenge.
Is it an opportunity for Argentina? Without a doubt, Milei’s personal relationship with Trump works in favor of both, because Trump needs someone to take over. leadership in this part of the continent that Luladue to ideological distance and their own mistakes, can no longer assume. And it needs him as a spokesperson, as a retaining wall against the agenda of the dictatorships that weigh too much in the region. Argentina, for its part, has the conditions to assume that leadership that eluded us for so many decades.
Source: Ambito
