On March 7, 2026, President Trump convened leaders from 12 Western Hemisphere nations at his Doral golf resort to sign the Americas Counter-Cartel Coalition proclamation — a 17-nation military alliance committing to lethal force against cartels designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. The summit formalized the Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine and represents the most aggressive assertion of U.S. hemispheric dominance since the Cold War. But the three largest Latin American economies — Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia, representing over 60% of regional GDP — were deliberately excluded. An anti-cartel coalition without the countries most central to narcotics production and transit is structurally incomplete by design. The design is the point. Twelve perspectives steelmanned. Eight frameworks applied. Eight composite characters. ~19,000 words.

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