The information is public; the United States has 6,000 military bases within its territory and approximately 800 outside its borders, 76 of which are in Latin America. Of the latter, the majority are concentrated in Central America and the Caribbean.
Not content with this, the renewed confrontation between the Donald Trump administration and—among others—China, Europe, Canada, Mexico, Iran, and much of Africa and the Middle East, on economic and tariff issues, is leading the Republican US president to repeat what the US has been doing for the past 70 years when things don't go their way: increasing financial and military subjugation and submission: first with suffocating loans from vulture funds and the International Monetary Fund, and second by controlling those same countries through the installation of military bases.
From Agenda Malvinas , we track existing information on US bases in Latin America to understand what Argentina doesn't see or understand. Above all, we examine which countries are controlled and subjugated by the US with an iron fist and by force of arms:
12 in Puerto Rico;
12 in Panama;
9 in Colombia;
8 in Peru;
3 in Honduras;
3 in Mexico;
2 in Ecuador;
2 in Paraguay;
1 in El Salvador;
1 in Cuba.
The bases projected in Argentina
In the case of Argentina, the project that has garnered the most media attention is the creation of an Integrated Naval Base for Antarctic development with US military participation in the city of Ushuaia , the capital of Tierra del Fuego. This was ratified last month when the head of the US Southern Command, Admiral Alvin Holsey , arrived in the country to consolidate the commitment that Argentine President Javier Milei himself had made and announced on April 3, 2024, when he received Holsey's predecessor, General Laura Richardson . But with a new addition, which they also intend to create in Ushuaia: a supply base for their nuclear submarines.
Less known but also of high relevance, was the commitment of Mauricio Macri's government , when in 2018 it opened the door to the creation of a US military base in Neuquén , with the aim of controlling the supposed Chinese base that had been authorized in 2012 by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's second presidential term in that province, and that after a journalistic bombardment that concluded with a scientific and military inspection by senior officials of Javier Milei , it was clearly demonstrated that such a Chinese base did not exist and that the existing structure was an observation station of "Deep Space" whose installation arose from the technological space cooperation between China and Argentina.
In addition, the current government signed an agreement with the United States early last year to integrate military units from that North American country into the Argentine Army Corps of Engineers to monitor and control the Paraguay, Paraná, and Uruguay rivers.
To the danger posed by the presence of US bases on our territory, in a context of growing conflict that could drag us into a new world war, we must add the record of successive crimes that US troops have carried out against the local civilian population (rapes, kidnappings and murders, etc.), relying on the diplomatic immunity they enjoy when living in foreign territory .
In this context, we must not and cannot lose sight of those who Javier Milei's government is allowing to enter Argentine national territory. They are none other than the founding partners of NATO with Great Britain , who have the main NATO military base in the Malvinas Islands, specifically on Monte Agradable, but in this case in the South Atlantic .
Thus, US interference in South America is deepening, and Donald Trump's policy doesn't seem to be overly concerned with getting along with his continental neighbors, but rather with imposing his policies . Proof of this is the current attack on Mexico and Canada, which, until yesterday, were his strategic partners in North America.
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