Washington’s hand is behind the elections in Brazil, the institutional coup in Bolivia, and the Argentine Supreme Court rulings regarding foreign land ownership and the imprisonment of Cristina Fernández, the newspaper *Página12* warns.
In a lead Sunday column, political commentator Raúl Kollmann notes that the United States revoked the visa of Bolivia’s Attorney General, Roger Mariaca; within 48 hours, the liberal government sent police to arrest him without a court order.
Officials from the U.S., Argentine, and Peruvian embassies—all aligned with Donald Trump and part of the so-called “Shield of the Americas,” a mechanism created by the U.S. administration to dominate the region according to the whims of the far-right—were present at the session where another attorney general was unconstitutionally appointed.
In Argentina, the government was forced to withdraw a section regarding foreign land ownership in August because it was losing the Senate vote; just days later, on August 31, the Supreme Court began preparing a ruling in favor of foreign ownership.
Behind this were the United States and the shadowy businessman Peter Thiel, driven by the need to set up Artificial Intelligence data centers in Patagonia—facilities that require water, energy, and cheap land, Kollmann points out.
He notes that in the United States, proposals to install these gigantic data centers have already been rejected 46 times. On March 21, 2025, Trump and his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, revoked Cristina Kirchner’s visa.
That same day — the columnist adds — the Court of Cassation rejected her appeal in the “Vialidad” (Roadworks) case, and two months later, the Supreme Court ordered the former president’s arrest in record time. “Washington’s hand was clearly involved,” he reiterates.
Last Friday — two days before Brazil’s presidential election — Nick Zimmerman, a former director at the U.S. National Security Council, stated that if Lula won the election, Trump would not recognize the result.
At the same time, the United States suspended consular activities in Brazil “for security reasons,” demonstrating Washington’s total interference—not only in Bolivia, Argentina’s elections, and the Argentine Supreme Court, but also in Brazil’s elections.
In an event amounting to an institutional coup in Bolivia, Prosecutor Mariaca led the investigations that resulted in the imprisonment of Fernando Cerimedo—a former advisor to Javier Milei, Trump himself, and Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz—on charges of attempted femicide, illicit enrichment, and bribery involving drug-trafficking aircraft.
Amidst the investigation, Kollmann reports, the U.S. government revoked the visas of Mariaca and other judicial officials in a clear maneuver to protect its ally, Cerimedo. His arrest and the information that emerged from it sent shockwaves through the governments of the “Shield of the Americas.”
Two days later — despite the absence of any legal case in either Bolivia or the United States — Mariaca, two other prosecutors, and 11 other judicial officials were arrested on Paz’s orders. The Minister of Government thanked the U.S. DEA, making it clear that the decision to make the arrests had been made in Washington.
Hours later, Rubio praised Paz and described the decision to arrest Mariaca as a “bold move.” The following day, right-wing governments across Latin America also backed Paz, stating that these actions fell within the framework of the “Shield of the Americas”—referring to the agreement Trump had reached with those governments—the commentator notes. However outlandish it may seem, the offensive by Trump and the Republican right across the continent is based on the ‘Donroe’ doctrine—a play on “America for the Americans,” the columnist notes.
Displaying his megalomania, Trump has placed the ‘D’ from his own name at the forefront of the doctrine, replacing ‘Monroe’ with ‘Donroe’. The result: “America for Trump.” And that is how they operate from Washington — openly and without pretense, the political analyst concludes.
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
