Trump redraws the map by force. Puerto Rico falls into the new order of 2026: a colony reactivated for war and the control of the hemisphere.
By:
Sandra Rodríguez Cotto
The
world awakened today to a thunder that did not come from New Year's fireworks,
but from the missiles of "Operation
Absolute Resolve." In a maneuver seemingly ripped from an eighties
action movie, the United States captured Nicolás
Maduro and Cilia
Flores, transporting them like war trophies from Caracas to U.S. soil, with
a cynical technical layover in Puerto Rico.
This
is not merely a logistical move; it is an illegal slap
in the face to the entire region, using our Island as the offloading dock for
an empire that has finally decided to strip away the mask it once claimed was
diplomatic.
From
his mansion at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump not only announced the fall of Chavismo
but dusted off a sterilized—yet far more aggressive—version of the Monroe Doctrine. This
time, he isn't asking for permission; he is here to collect. It is no longer
about "America for the Americans," but "The Hemisphere Under My
Boot." With his sights set on Mexico,
Colombia, and Brazil, the rhetoric is clear: any country labeled a
"narco-refuge" is a potential target.
But hypocrisy is the main course of these new geopolitics. While Trump dons the mantle of a crusader against narco-trafficking to justify the invasion of Venezuela, just a few weeks ago he granted a full pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández. Yes, the very same former president of Honduras convicted of turning his country into a narco-state and smuggling at least 400 tons of cocaine into the United States. The message is transparent: drug trafficking is only a crime if you aren't a useful ally or if you have oil beneath your feet.




