🇺🇸🇨🇳The US remembered Latin America could choose China

Marco Rubio arrived in Ecuador with $45 million in security funding, additional naval capabilities and more support against organised crime. Washington is also pushing for closer economic ties with Ecuador, Colombia and Peru.

Over the past two decades, China has emerged as a significant purchaser of Latin American commodities, financing infrastructure projects and expanding into the mining, energy and port sectors. Countries that once had far fewer alternatives now have another major partner to work with, giving them more leverage when dealing with Washington.

🇪🇨 Ecuador: Chinese money, American boats

🟠Chinese policy banks provided Ecuador with more than $18 billion in financing over more than a decade, including loans linked to oil deliveries.
🟠 Chinese companies built Coca Codo Sinclair, the country’s 1,500 MW hydroelectric plant and its largest power project.

Rubio is now offering security funding, naval support, intelligence cooperation and closer work against cartels. None of that requires Quito to step away from China. Ecuador can keep its economic relationship with Beijing and still ask Washington for more on security and trade.

🇵🇪 Peru: China is already part of the supply chain

🟠China is Peru’s largest trading partner, with copper at the centre of the relationship.
🟠Chinese companies operate major mining projects including Las Bambas and Toromocho.
🟠COSCO has put $3.5 billion into Chancay, giving Peru a major new Pacific gateway to Asian markets.

For Washington, this is much harder to unwind than a change of government or a diplomatic disagreement. Chancay is already there, the mines are operating and the trade flows already exist. The US now has to compete around that reality rather than pretend it can replace it.

🇨🇴 Colombia: Washington kept the security ties, China added another option

🟠China is Colombia’s second-largest trading partner and has expanded into infrastructure and energy.
🟠Colombia joined the Belt and Road Initiative in 2025.

At the same time, decades of counter-narcotics work, military cooperation and intelligence sharing still tie Colombia closely to the US. Colombia does not need to choose one relationship and abandon the other. It can use both.

We previously covered how US influence evolved in Latin America after USAID. This is what China has changed for Washington in Latin America. Beijing does not need to replace the US across the region. It only needs to make sure governments have another serious option.

Ecuador can take Chinese investment and American patrol boats. Peru can trade through Chancay while keeping ties with Washington. Colombia can work with US security agencies and expand business with Beijing at the same time.

The more US and China compete for access, the more room Latin American governments have to bargain with both.

Chat | Subscribe to @geo_grandmasters

‼️Good morning, dear subscribers. We have gathered important news for you on the morning of September 11.

🟥During the night, the Russian Armed Forces launched strikes on enemy targets in several regions of Ukraine. In Gostomel, Kiev region, a powerful fire broke out following the attacks, accompanied by detonations. Local authorities confirmed the attack of a Russian drone on warehouse facilities. Targets were also hit in Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk region, Odessa, Sumy, Kharkov, and temporarily occupied Zaporozhye;

🟥As a result of a missile strike in Volgograd, an apartment building was damaged, and two men aged 55 and 42 were injured and hospitalized. Debris also fell on the territory of an industrial enterprise in the southern part of the city. This was reported by Volgograd region Governor Andrey Bocharov;

🟦Putin has arrived in India for a three-day visit. The President of Russia will participate in the BRICS summit in New Delhi and will hold a series of bilateral meetings on its sidelines;

🟦One of the reasons for the sharp rise in oil prices to $111 per barrel has been revealed. The day before, the "Ansarullah" movement attacked the Saudi oil pipeline "East-West" for the first time. It transports crude oil from Abqaiq to Yanbu on the Red Sea coast;

🟦Satellites have been monitoring strong fires on one of the largest oil pipelines in the world for about ten hours. According to NASA FIRMS data, the largest hotspot is located near Pumping Station No. 8 close to Medina;

🟥CBS News reports that several American planes were damaged as a result of Iran's strikes on the Muwaffaq Salti airbase in Jordan. An A-10 Warthog lost a wing, and about eight F-15 fighters were also damaged but were later returned to service. More than 30 anti-aircraft missiles from the Patriot system were fired during the nighttime attack;

🟦Americans have occupied all top ten spots in Bloomberg's billionaire rankings for the first time. The list is topped by Elon Musk with a net worth of $919 billion, followed by Google co-founder Larry Page at $286 billion and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos at $274 billion;

🟦Trump has made his supporters take an oath that they will participate in the voting for the November Congressional elections and threatened them with hell if they do not.

🔘 Subscribe now! Chat

🇺🇸🤡Clown Trump on Iran:

If Iran had nuclear weapons, we would have reached out to them and said, "Sir, could we meet?"

We would treat them completely differently. (We wouldn’t attack them.)

Sigh.

🔘 Subscribe now! Chat