Newly confirmed American State Secretary Marco Rubio has laid out his agenda for foreign policy in a new Wall Street Journal On-ED On Friday, it explains that his department will be aimed at developing America’s relationship with his immediate neighbors.
Rubio, the former Senator from Florida, stated that American diplomats “neglected” the relationships of America with the Western hemisphere, while prefering those with countries on the other side of the world. The new main diplomat stated that that approach had ended.
“For many reasons, American foreign policy has long been aimed at other regions while they look out at our own. As a result, we have had problems festivating, opportunities and neglected partners. That ends now,” he wrote.
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State Secretary Marco Rubio composed a Wall Street Journal Op-ED on Friday and put the focus of the department on American relationships with Western hemisphere countries. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Since President Donald Trump’s victory in November, the president has indicated his intention to shake up relationships with large countries in the western hemisphere. He has my mind about making Canada The 51st stateinvestigated the possibility of turning Greenland into an American territory, and once in function, adopted an more aggressive attitude towards Latin -American countries that do not limit the flow of illegal immigration.
The president threatened last week the rates against Colombia after the country initially refused to accept the return of Colombians who were illegally caught to enter the US. The ministry suspension of visa issue at the US embassy in the country.
In the light of these penalties, Colombian President Gustavo Petro admitted, Even offering his own presidential plane to bring migrants back to the country.
Rubio’s OP-OD emphasized that his department will focus on building relationships and arranging disputes with these nearby countries, especially because the US wants to implement stronger border controls.
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State Secretary Marco Rubio is sworn in by vice -president JD Vance in the vice -presidential ceremonial office in the Eisenhower Executive Office building on the White House campus, Tuesday, January 21, 2025, in Washington, as his wife, Jeanette Rubio, resembles . (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
“President Trump’s foreign policy agenda starts close to home. One of his top priorities is to secure our boundaries and reversing the disastrous invasion that is led by the last administration. The role of diplomacy in this effort is central,” he wrote. “We have to collaborate with countries of origin to stop and scare further migrant flows and illegally accept the return of their citizens in the US.”
The diplomat mentioned how some countries work “enthusiastically”, while others are “less”. He noticed Colombia and said that Trump’s hard treatment of that country will extend to others who do not work together.
Nevertheless, Rubio emphasized that Trump’s “vision on the hemisphere remains positive.”
“We see a prosperous region full of opportunities. We can strengthen trade tires, create partnerships to control migration and improve the safety of our hemisphere,” he wrote.
He praised his coming trip to El SalvadorGuatemala, Costa Rica, Panama and the Dominican Republic, which states that these countries “will” benefit greatly from greater cooperation with the US “because they” were neglected by governments from the past that gave priority to the global above local and policy have been aiming for policy measures to accelerate the policy of the policy that has a policy. “
Rubio’s OP-OD emphasized that his department will focus on building relationships and arranging disputes with these nearby countries, especially because the US wants to implement stronger border controls. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)
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Rubio also indicated the intention of the US to concentrate his supply chains in the western hemisphere in contrast to “distant” that were destroyed by COVID-19. “Moving our critical supply chains to the Western hemisphere would free a path to protect the economic growth of our neighbors and protect the economic security of Americans,” he said, adding, “closer relationships with the US lead to more jobs and higher Growth in these countries in these countries.
Rubio emphasized how mass migration “our entire region had destabilized” and allowed drug cartels to poison American and other Latin -American communities. He noted that “illegal regimes in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela intentionally strengthen the chaos.”
Despite the problems, he expressed optimism that nations in the western hemisphere “are finished with the US to tackle these problems and make themselves more prosperous.” Just like President Trump, their leaders are pragmatists who put their citizens first. And because they are pragmatics, they also know that there is much more to be gained to work with the US than not. “
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The secretary concluded the Op-ED and wrote: “We share a common house. The safer, stronger and more prosperous than becomes at home, the more all our nations benefit. Together there are few limits to what we can achieve.”
