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On February 20, Paraguay’s President Santiago Peña posted a copy of Trump’s invitation to what’s known as the Shield of the Americas summit, to be held March 7 at the president’s Doral resort in Florida. Invited leaders from the region will, per reports, address hemispheric security matters and ways to expel “foreign interference in the hemisphere,” most likely referring to China. Heads of state from Argentina, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, and Trinidad & Tobago are expected to join. Costa Rica’s outgoing President Rodrigo Chaves and his successor Laura Fernández will head there together. Chile’s President-elect José Antonio Kast will also make it, even though it takes place just four days before his inauguration.

https://www.as-coa.org/articles/trump-latin-america-rubio-caricom-scotus-tariffs-and-trumps-sotu#whats-coming-up

Shield of the Americas: A Joint Front Against Transnational Crime

The President of El Salvador and the President of Costa Rica signed the documents to officially create and launch the so-called “Shield of the Americas”. The signing took place on December 11, 2025, during the official visit of the President of Costa Rica to El Salvador. The location of the signing was the presidential residence at Lake Coatepeque.

El Salvador and Costa Rica have taken a historic step by launching Americas Shield, a new bilateral initiative designed to confront the growing threat of transnational criminal networks.

Presented jointly by President Nayib Bukele and President Rodrigo Chaves, the initiative establishes a coordinated security framework meant to match the reach and sophistication of the criminal organizations operating across Latin America.

The concept of a unified regional defense against organized crime is not entirely new. President Bukele had already brought up the idea during his official visit to Costa Rica last year, where he emphasized the need for countries to move from isolated efforts to a shared regional strategy.

According to both governments, this new visit by President Chaves to El Salvador—after months of preparation and refinement of the proposal—marks the moment when the long-discussed vision becomes a concrete and operational initiative: the creation of the Americas Shield.

https://elsalvadoren.com/shield-of-the-americas-a-joint-front-against-transnational-crime/