The Trump dollar as electoral interference

Five weeks after Javier Miley’s party won the legislative elections in his country, in which the White House’s financial commitment to the Argentine president was tipped, Donald Trump is shaking his checkbook again to try to influence. … Another election, in this case the presidential election in Honduras. A few hours before the election, Trump pardoned former President Juan Orlando Hernandez, convicted in the United States on drug trafficking charges, and threatened the Central American country to turn off the money tap and cancel all investments if Nasri “Tito” Asfora, now a candidate for Hernandez’s party, did not win. If Putin’s Russia has secretly made electoral interference a key element of its “hybrid war”, focused on Europe, Trump is using his checkbook to impose conditions on voting in Ibero-American countries that show clear symptoms of economic suffocation. And unlike the Kremlin’s “robots”, without hiding, the dollar is at hand.