Trump looks to turn attention to Western Hemisphere, at least for a moment, at a regional summit
CNBC
Trump has pledged to reassert U.S. dominance in Latin America and push back on what he sees as years of Chinese economic encroachment in America's backyard.
President Donald Trump is set to gather with Latin American leaders on Saturday at his Miami-area golf club as his administration looks to demonstrate that it's still committed to sharpening the U.S. foreign policy focus on the Western Hemisphere, even as it deals with five-alarm crises around the globe.
The gathering, which the White House is calling the "Shield of the Americas" summit, comes just two months after Trump ordered an audacious U.S. military operation to capture Venezuela's then-president, Nicolás Maduro, and whisk him and his wife to the United States to face drug conspiracy charges.
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