Mexico is Next

February 12, 2026

Fresh from pulling off a rapid regime change in Venezuela, President Donald Trump now attacks Cuba’s government using economic pressure. Sanctions on oil supplies and other essentials have brought the island to its knees, and now Trump demands that Mexico join his embargo. Through co-option and other means, Trump intends to bring about sweeping changes in America’s “neighborhood” — a revolution that he jump-started last year by renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. He’s put the southern portion of the Western Hemisphere on notice that a new “sheriff” was in town and that each nation must fall in line or face serious consequences. Venezuela and Cuba are his first targets in this rollout of a “Donroe Doctrine” which will involve changes from Greenland to Argentina. But the first and greatest upheaval will be in Latin America. His first salvo was to close the U.S.-Mexico border, then deport hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants who are mostly Hispanic. Now he launches a series of interventions that will affect dozens of countries in South America, Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

Adios to Venezuela’s deposed Nicolas Maduro and Cuba’s Raúl Castro