It is unusual, but it is happening. China is losing ground in Latin America.

This week, Mexico announced that it will review its tariff policy over Beijing, closing once and for all the back door to access U.S. markets. Meanwhile, an American investor group signed a huge deal taking control over key ports near the Panama Canal.

These two achievements shows that Trump’s "America First" foreign policy is yielding concrete results in a very short time. The question is, what is needed to cement these results and build strong and healthy relationships in the Americas?

Over the last two decades, Latin America has been seduced by China’s economic investment projects. The communist state has an enormous hold on telecommunications, the lithium and copper industries, ports and other critical infrastructure in the region.

A U.N. report states that, from 2000 to 2022, the trade in goods between Latin America........

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