The Scaffolding of Disputed Sovereignty: Fantasy and Fragility in the Latin American Großraum - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

The Scaffolding of Disputed Sovereignty: Fantasy and Fragility in the Latin American Großraum - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

As soon as Trump took his seat in the Oval Office that (distant) January of 2025, he signed his first 26 executive orders, one of which initiated the process of classifying eleven Latin American cartels—many of them Mexican—as terrorist organisations. Since then, collective psychosis has erupted, fuelled by speculation about possible military interventions. Although the political, economic, and diplomatic costs make a military incursion into Mex…