This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel with Gregory Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs.

Speaking of the Americas, Gregory was devoting his attention to Canada, an election soon enough.

However, the Americas include Central and South America, which there's no easy way to generalize,

except for the fact that the Trump administration is paying attention.

Good heavens!

It's been a while.

Gregory, it was a treat of these last years that I have had conversations, in-depth

conversations with people who are either South American themselves,

that's in the case of the former Foreign Minister of Brazil, Ernesto Arugio, or expert in

opinions of all the countries that are in trouble. That would be Joseph Umar and Evan Ellis of

the U.S. Army War College. And I've learned my map as best I can.

I've also learned that there's disorder in South America and Central America, has been for some time.

But these are sophisticated cultures with deep and very developed infrastructures, depending on where you're landing your feet,

troubled nations that were once well-to-do, well-to-do nations that were once troubled.

So you have an opinion that you published recently about the Trump administration and the Americas.

What is the ambition for all this attention?

Marco Rubio, his first embassy overseas was to travel to Central America. What are they looking for?

Well, it signified where the Trump administration is going, and it is, firstly, to control the whole

Western Hemisphere, that is, from the Arctic to the Antarctic,

down the entire Americas. So this is very, very important. First time that the United States

has returned to something akin to the Monroe Doctrine of 1823, but the reality is that

it's common sense. This is the

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