Sociedad Media covers the Americas as a single, interconnected story—tracking the political shifts, security alliances, economic transformations, and cultural forces reshaping the Western Hemisphere from Washington to Tierra del Fuego. From the Shield of the Americas and Trump’s Monroe Doctrine revival, to presidential elections, cartel wars, and the energy deals rewriting the region’s future. Original reporting from Miami—the capital of the Americas
Lula & Trump met for three hours, canceled the joint press conference, agreed on a 30-day tariff deadline, and left Washington with exactly what each needed — a diplomatic win neither could fully explain in public
Lula goes to Washington on Thursday with rare earths, gang designation threats, and EU-Mercosur on the table. Will the meeting make or break Lula’s presidential hopes in October?
Trump dismantled three of the four threats the Donroe Doctrine identified in Latin America. The fourth may not have a seat at the table in Beijing next week
Leaked audio recordings purport to show Trump-pardoned ex-president Juan Orlando Hernández coordinating with Honduras’s sitting government to fund a covert anti-left media operation across Latin America — allegedly with Milei’s money. The recordings have not been independently authenticated
The USMCA — the agreement that governs how the United States, Mexico, and Canada do business — must be renewed by July 1. Washington isn’t playing nice. And Latin America is watching what happens next
The fall of Maduro. CIA operations in Mexico. Pentagon memo leaks. U.S. troops in Argentina. Tech billionaires in Buenos Aires. Cuba’s blockade. FTO threats aimed at Brazil. This is not a collection of individual foreign policy decisions. It is a doctrine — and Washington named it
For four decades, U.S. support for British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands was one of the fixed coordinates of the South Atlantic’s geopolitical order. A leaked Pentagon memo, a Trump ally in Buenos Aires & the fallout from the Iran war put it all in doubt
Peru is on its ninth president in a decade. A $3.5 billion U.S. arms deal just collapsed the cabinet. The election count is still disputed & a presidential runoff is six weeks away. This is what a decade of institutional collapse looks like in real time
At a progressive summit in Barcelona, Colombia’s outgoing president invoked the Spanish colonial era to warn Trump that Washington’s approach to the region is creating the conditions for “rebellion.” The warning is real, but the messenger is complicated
Washington accused the Brazilian officer embedded with ICE in Miami of manipulating the U.S. immigration system to pursue political ends. The Trump administration is now expelling him
The war between the U.S., Israel, and Iran has produced the largest oil supply disruption since the 1970s. Latin America is not a bystander. Brazil is winning, Chile is exposed, Venezuela is constrained — and tonight’s Trump deadline could change everything