South America on Trump’s Chessboard

The Geopolitical Front of Narcoterrorism and Global Totalitarian Influence

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By Antonio Fernando Pinheiro Pedro

"The world is not threatened by evil, but by those who allow evil to happen." — Albert Einstein

South America’s Crisis and the Vectors of Destabilization

South America, once a stage for libertarian utopias and romantic revolutions, now drags itself as a theater of shadows—where organized crime, international terrorism, bureaucratic arrogance, and institutional decay intertwine under the influence of radical ideologies, globalist NGOs, weakened military leadership, and politicized judicial structures.

The Dictator, the Ex-Guerrilla, and International Narcoterrorism

Tensions have escalated in the Caribbean—not due to climate change, but geopolitical friction. Nicolás Maduro has evolved from a corrupt dictator into an international narcoterrorist, with a $50 million bounty offered by the U.S. government for his capture.

Recognized as the leader of the Cartel de los Soles, he has turned Venezuela into a Bolivarian wasteland, sustained by starving militias, corrupt generals, and Cuban advisors. Despite sitting atop oil reserves, Venezuela faces widespread shortages and imports gasoline from the U.S.—its ideological adversary.

Meanwhile, Gustavo Petro in Colombia, a proponent of cocaine trade legalization, has lost his U.S. visa along with several allies. He now faces external threats from potential Venezuelan conflict spillover and internal pressure due to rising unpopularity and alleged ties to narcotrafficking and guerrilla groups—one of which recently assassinated his main electoral opponent.

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Brazil and the New Triple Border

The diplomatic incident involving Admiral Alvin Holsey—barred from visiting Acre in early 2025—was the opening act of a brewing tragedy. Since then, the U.S. has tightened its stance: trade tariffs, visa bans for Brazilian officials, and application of the Magnitsky Act to a Supreme Court justice and his family. The message is clear: the current Brazilian administration is now on America’s national security radar.

Acre, long considered peripheral, has become the epicenter of a new triple border—Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia—through which gold, drugs, weapons, dollars, and influence flow. The region has become a corridor for international narcoterrorism, linking Brazilian factions like PCC and Comando Vermelho to terrorist networks such as Hezbollah.

Wealthy NGOs operate as fronts for illicit activities, while the Brazilian state remains absent—or worse, complicit through omission.

The strong Arab presence in the region has facilitated the infiltration of radical elements from Syria and Lebanon, mirroring the situation at the Brazil-Paraguay-Argentina border. Intelligence sources suggest Hezbollah connections, especially through resource flows and ideological networks tied to leftist “social” organizations and narcotrafficking.

U.S. Security Doctrines in South America

With the declaration of a National Emergency, the U.S. repositioned South America as a critical frontier for hemispheric security. The military task force deployed to the Caribbean is not just containment—it’s the shadow of Panama looming over Caracas.

The extraterritorial coercion doctrine was consolidated under Clinton as the Environmental Security Doctrine, aimed at protecting strategic resources like minerals, oil, water, and biodiversity. Under Bush, it evolved into the Regional Security Doctrine, focused on counterterrorism. Obama expanded its use, while Trump sharpened its deterrent power.

After a disastrous period under Joe Biden—where gender politics took precedence over national security—Trump redefined the doctrine, identifying the transnational spread of radical Muslim terrorism (sponsored by Iran and hosted by Latin American leftist regimes) and Latin American narcoterrorism (protected by socialist governments and aligned with the so-called “Axis of Evil”).

The presence of these actors in both the Middle East and South America justified Trump’s decision to open a new combat front in Latin America.

The Nobel Peace Prize and the Isolation of Socialist Regimes

Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was both symbolic and strategic—a blow to Latin American narco-regimes.

These socialist governments are already weakened, lacking popular legitimacy and surviving through disguised police repression and judicial tutelage, supported by fragmented or corrupted military forces.

They rely on limited tolerance from globalist-led European governments and alignment with the “Axis of Evil.” As a result, they are increasingly exposed and isolated.

China and Russia, recognizing the futility of supporting ideological relics, have scaled back military involvement, maintaining only commercial ties. Putin and Trump, despite geopolitical rivalry, share a sovereignist stance and a common enemy: progressive globalism and its instruments—hostile media, opportunistic NGOs, multilateral organizations infiltrated by leftists, a belligerent NATO, and the woke doctrine.

China, focused on "prosperity", uses ideology as bait to attract socialist governments and extract resources. It no longer promotes revolutions, but profits through commerce.

Trump’s deterrent doctrine proved effective, reshaping geopolitical zones and trade routes—even at short-term cost to U.S. interests—forcing China to abandon military support for toxic allies in South America.

Ideological Infiltration and Brazil’s Institutional Crisis

This subtle strategic shift, with apparent “commercial concessions” to China, remains ignored by Brazilian analysts—unable to forecast scenarios or grasp the long-term impact of U.S. decisions that may seem immediate.

In Brazil, among enthusiasts of the “Global South” (a globalist term) and selective “defense of democracy,” ideological infiltration in the judiciary and military is already a reality—confirmed even by domestic military sources.

Some officers have strayed from the traditionally anti-populist, pro-Western doctrine of the Superior War College, seduced by Marxist narratives and anti-American sentiment. Amid mass defections and retirements, a generation of non-vocational professionals and bureaucrats emerged—more loyal to career paths than to the nation.

This phenomenon enabled ideological infiltration and blurred the line between public interest and political activism. The judiciary, fully aligned with the ruling elite, operates as a legal arm of the infiltration system—shielding power and targeting dissent.

Brazil is no longer merely in institutional crisis—it is a contested territory, where national sovereignty has been outsourced to ideological and criminal interests.

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Regional Trends and the Need for Structural Reform

Bolivia has spent five years seeking institutional stability, with popular rejection of “21st-century socialism.” Similar movements are underway in Peru, Guyana, Panama, and Ecuador. Even airport security in these countries is being outsourced to private firms aligned with international anti-drug programs—a trend I’ve previously noted.

To end the U.S. national emergency and restore global geopolitical balance, the cancer of the São Paulo Forum (or Puebla Group) must be eradicated from this corner of Latin America.

The U.S. government no longer doubts this necessity.

Conclusion: The Discharge Will Come

South America is the next geopolitical front to be addressed by the Trump administration—a chessboard of narcoterrorism and a laboratory for globalist-progressive totalitarian models. A disguised experiment of “States Without People,” run by judicial tutors who shield government corruption while censoring popular sovereignty under the guise of protecting it.

The Essequibo crisis, economic collapse, internal repression, and international isolation point to an inevitable outcome. The discharge will come—from within or without. In Brazil, the first signs are already visible as early allies abandon ship.

When the rupture occurs, there will be no refuge for the Bolivarian enforcers. They will slide from the latrine of history into the sewer.

As for the “Brazuela” administration and its judicial apparatus—there will be no exit but the drain.

The new U.S. geostrategic model is simple: Si vis pacem, para bellum.

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Antonio Fernando Pinheiro Pedro is a lawyer (University of São Paulo), journalist, and institutional and environmental consultant. He is the founding partner of Pinheiro Pedro Advogados law firm and director of AICA – Corporate and Environmental Intelligence Agency . He served on the Green Economy Task Force of the International Chamber of Commerce, was a professor at the Barro Branco Military Police Academy, and a lecturer at NISAM — the Information and Environmental Health Center at the University of São Paulo. He has worked as a consultant for UNICRI — the United Nations Interregional Crime Research Institute, as well as for UNDP, the World Bank, and the IFC. He is a member of the Brazilian Institute of Lawyers (IAB), the Superior Council for National Studies and Policy at FIESP — the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo, and Vice President of the São Paulo Press Association. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Ambiente Legal portal and curator of the blog The Eagle View.