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US President Donald Trump will host Latin American leaders invited from Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, El Salvador, Ecuador and Honduras at a summit in Miami later this year.
Some among the invitees, including Argentina’s Javier Milei and El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, are firm Trump allies.
A White House official, while speaking to AFP, did not immediately provide details on the meeting, which will be held on March 7, 2026.
But a report in Argentine media said that the summit would focus on countering China, a major Latin American trading partner.
The United States under Trump has sought to reassert its dominance and has battled on trade with China, the world’s second-largest economy, with tariffs and a trade war.
The meeting comes after US forces captured and overthrew Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and Honduras swore in a conservative president who won his election with Trump’s backing.
Trump described the raid to seize Maduro as an update of the Monroe Doctrine, the 1823 declaration by the fifth US president, James Monroe, that Latin America was closed to other powers.
Weeks earlier, White House policymakers had given more intellectual gloss for the same idea in a national security strategy that announced a “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine.
The policy, the strategy said, will authorise US intervention in Latin America for goals such as seizing strategic assets, fighting crime or ending migration, one of Trump’s top domestic goals.
It is not clearly stated who among the invitees would be attending, or if other leaders were also invited.
