BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA (By Pietro D. Pitts, Energy Analytics Institute, 13.Mar.2026, Word: 230) — In Doral, Florida, US president Donald Trump recently convened what was billed as the first-ever Shield of the Americas summit. There, Trump and his secretary of sate Marco Rubio welcomed a coalition of 13 countries seemingly “committed to freedom, security, and prosperity for our hemisphere.”
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According to Rubio, the US intends to “transform the Western Hemisphere” through this initiative.
