In Angela Diffley’s broad‑ranging interview with Daniel Landsberg‑Rodriguez, the founding companion at Aurora Macro Methods frames the Trump administration’s method in Latin America as a hybrid of nineteenth‑century coercive diplomacy mixed with a novel technique of selective alignment. The US now seems to favour governments whose management model resonates with Washington’s populist, anti‑institutional tone. He argues that some international locations in Latin America are responding to a contest of affinity: the extra Trump‑model you’re, the extra privileged your remedy. The shift is having main implications for international locations equivalent to Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador and Venezuela.
The Americas' Axis of Affinity: US coercion, affect, and the ghosts of gunboat diplomacy
By Emily Turner
