President Donald Trump’s second-term drive to restore U.S. primacy in the Western Hemisphere — the “Donroe Doctrine,” his update of the Monroe Doctrine — has produced measurable results throughout his second term.
The administration’s Nov. 2025 National Security Strategy pledged to “reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine” and restore “American pre-eminence in the Western Hemisphere.” Officials call that the “Trump Corollary.”
After U.S. forces seized Maduro in Jan. 2026, President Trump put his official stamp on it.
“The Monroe Doctrine is a big deal, but we’ve superseded it by a lot,” he said. “They now call it the ‘Donroe Doctrine.’ … American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again.”
The results from President Trump’s aggressive ‘America First’ policies in the hemisphere cannot be denied:
Maduro is in U.S. custody, and Venezuelan oil is no longer a rival slush fund
Operation Absolute Resolve pulled Maduro and Cilia Flores from Caracas. No U.S. personnel were killed. Independent imagery analysis later described the raid as tightly scoped, not a broad occupation as President Trump learned from the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan.
President Trump said Venezuela had hosted foreign adversaries and seized American oil assets in violation of two-century-old hemispheric rules.
In August, the White House announced a deal giving the United States a stake in concessions covering about 65 billion barrels of proven reserves, with Pentagon equity and a guaranteed U.S. offtake at cost. Oil that had moved toward China was redirected toward the U.S. market.
Chinese-linked operators lose the canal gates
President Trump entered office saying China effectively ran the Panama Canal. Secretary of State Marco Rubio made Panama his first foreign stop.
In Jan. 2026, Panama’s Supreme Court ruled the CK Hutchison concession at Balboa and Cristóbal was unconstitutional. The terminals later passed to Western operators. Panama also pulled back from Belt and Road projects. The ChiComs called the case political. The Trump administration called it a security correction.
Washington, not Beijing, backstopped Milei — and got repaid
In Oct. 2025, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent finalized a $20 billion currency-swap line with Argentina and bought pesos in the open market. Bessent described the move as an “economic Monroe Doctrine.”
President Trump tied continued help to Milei’s midterm prospects, letting Argentinians know the U.S. has their back when they choose free enterprise. Milei’s party won. By Jan. 2026, Argentina had fully repaid the limited draw. Bessent said the Exchange Stabilization Fund even booked a profit. U.S. officials also cited Argentine pledges to reduce Chinese influence and open mineral projects to American firms as successful long-term impacts of the economic intervention.
Cartels are treated as terrorist targets then obliterated
Operation Southern Spear began striking suspected drug boats in Sept. 2025. Pentagon and command statements have since listed dozens of strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific against vessels linked to designated terrorist organizations.
In March 2026, President Trump launched the Shield of the Americas, also called the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition. By September it had grown to nearly 20 governments. Colombia joined in August. Peru joined this month after Rubio visited Lima. This shows that this anti-cartel campaign is far from a unilateral bombing. These are actions supported by a growing coalition of Latin American nations.
Honduras swung into the Trump column
In last year’s Honduran election, National Party candidate Tito Asfura narrowly defeated socialist LIBRE candidate Rixi Moncada and Liberal Party figure Salvador Nasralla.
President Trump forcefully backed Asfura and pardoned former President Juan Orlando Hernández—considered a controversial action by some. But those actions quickly paid off. After the vote, the new conservative administration in Honduras aligned with Washington on migration and drug interdiction. Honduras’s ZEDE “freedom city” zones reopened, providing a safe haven for Western capital.
But despite the massive successes of the Donroe Doctrine, there remains a sinister fifth column operating within the State Department looking to undermine President Trump’s progress and keep the status quo in place.
Ana Quintana-Lovett’s Subversive Influence
Quintana-Lovett is Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central America and Migration Affairs in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs. She previously served as a senior adviser on the Policy Planning Staff and in the Counselor’s office.
Before that she led Western Hemisphere staff for House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas), directed Latin America work at the Heritage Foundation, and worked at the Vandenberg Coalition. Her official biography also lists earlier time at the Defense Intelligence Agency. She is a former National Endowment for Democracy fellow. She has emerged as a particularly toxic gatekeeper who has wormed her way to a level of influence within the Trump administration.
On Guatemala, multiple sources have indicated that Quintana has repeatedly intervened for President Bernardo Arévalo. Arévalo is a leftist holdout in a region agitating against the Trump administration. Narcoterrorism has worsened on his watch and that the Justice Department has flagged the problem. Arévalo acts like he is playing ball with the Trump administration while actually enabling cartel behavior through his compliance or weakness.
Records obtained through public-records requests show that in July 2023, while still on House committee staff, Quintana advocated for Arévalo to get meetings with Biden administration officials. On June 24, Quintana met Arévalo in Guatemala City. The visit was announced as talks on security, migration, and trade. Her diplomatic efforts were meant to prop up Arévalo as he faces populist conservative opposition in next year’s Presidential election.
On Honduras, Quintana’s efforts ultimately failed. She worked diligently against the National Party and favored Nasralla. Trump had called Nasralla “no friend of freedom” and accused him of splitting the anti-communist vote. Nasralla had previously served as the Vice President under narco-communist President Ximena Castro.
After her efforts failed in Honduras, Quintana is doubling down on Guatemala, which could be the next domino to fall toward the success of the Donroe Doctrine. The liberal intervention effort Quintana has dedicated her life to promoting is falling apart, and she is hoping it holds together and then can be revitalized after President Trump leaves office.
Quintana’s earlier writing shows her true agenda. In 2015 she called for a Free Trade Area of the Americas. In 2021 she argued that women’s empowerment should be a pillar of U.S. foreign policy. In 2020 she criticized Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro over COVID restrictions and over a sovereignty fight with Emmanuel Macron about the Amazon.
Conservative governments now sitting in Buenos Aires, San Salvador, Tegucigalpa, Bogota, Lima, Santiago, La Paz and Quito form a vanguard that can Make the America’s Great Again. But the bureaucratic resistance against the fruits of the Donroe Doctrine are already in play, evidenced by the actions of Quintana, as they hope to outlast President Trump and flip the switch back to globalism, squalor and tyranny post-2028.
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