Analysis by Gergő Máté Nagy
There is increasing talk about the weakening of the global hegemony of the United States of America and the gradual transformation of the international system today. Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) play an essential role in these processes for several reasons. However, the various US administrations of the last twenty years have not paid enough attention to the processes taking place in this region, and they have taken few substantive steps to respond meaningfully to the developments of the last two decades. President Biden, who took office in January 2021, promised to restore the international role and global leadership of the United States after the unilateral and isolationist foreign policy of the Trump administration, and these goals have also affected relations between the US and Latin America. Although it would be important for the United States to redefine its relations with the region and address the challenges affecting US interests in LAC (e.g. the new pink tide, the immigration crisis, or the growing influence of China), in light of the last two years, it seems that the Latin American policy of the Biden administration has not yet been able to respond to the changed realities of the region.
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