(This article was written by Hermann Tertsch and appeared in El Debate. Trump forja su nueva alianza con Iberoamérica)

While Europe threatens to fall apart, in the Americas a new organization for the defense of freedom and common security is being created.

A buoyant President Donald Trump, confident he can soon end the war in Iran with the disappearance of the planet’s largest terrorist regime, yesterday gathered twelve presidents of Ibero-America in Miami to found a new organization, the Shield of the Americas, whose objective is the all-out fight against the drug cartels and the curbing of Chinese penetration throughout the American continent.

The meeting at the Doral Golf Club, owned by the president, is unprecedented because it stems from the convergence of interests, ideology and political will of Trump and his team — led by Marco Rubio — with the increasingly numerous conservative and anti-socialist leaders of Ibero-America. And its ambitious aim is to carry out the modernizing revolution of the continent that makes possible the advance of conservative forces toward the defeat of the alliance of left-wing forces with organized crime, and very especially with the large organizations of drug production and trafficking.

The new organization has a political, moral and intellectual link with Europe through the main channel of dialogue and political collaboration between the right-wing forces of all the Americas and the European right of patriots, conservatives and sovereigntists, which is constantly growing in the European nations. This organization for the political cooperation of the two pillars of the American West fits harmoniously into the project of the three pillars of the West that is the object of the policy of the Madrid Forum, which develops the Madrid Charter promoted by the Disenso foundation under the direction of the president of Vox, Santiago Abascal. Many of those attending are signatories of the Madrid Charter, collaborators of Patriots for Europe, allies and even personal friends of Abascal.

For the first time, a front is being forged in which the U.S. and numerous solid democratic allies of Ibero-America set out to put an end to the tragic and catastrophic prominence in Ibero-America of a violent, subversive and destructive left that made rivers of blood run throughout the subcontinent since the Cuban revolution. And Cuba — its mafia-like, communist and murderous regime, the infectious focus of violent communist subversion for nearly 70 years — will be the next to fall in the advance of this general redesign in which the dictatorships fed by crime are defeated and abolished.

America is beginning to unite in the reconquest of freedom, security and justice, with a recovery of the traditional values and virtues of the West and an unambiguous victory over the communist, socialist and drug-trafficking forces. The Shield of America aims to be an organization in defense of the market economy and the rule of law, and of self-defense against attempts at penetration by totalitarian and criminal powers.

Many countries have yet to join, and three of the largest — Mexico, Brazil and Colombia — remain in the hands of a left allied with the drug cartels. But the continent’s greatest focus of crime, the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro, is being dismantled — not as quickly as many of us wish, but steadily.

Meanwhile, the European Union shows ever more signs of dissolution, with a power in Brussels — embodied by Ursula von der Leyen’s European Commission — that is failed and adrift, and member states that openly reconsider their own interests in order to appease the growing rebellion of their increasingly poor, frustrated and dissatisfied citizens.

While in Europe the rulers have more differences every day in how to confront times of crisis amid the formation of a new world order — and cannot even agree on the degree of hostility toward Donald Trump — in America there are many who see the immense opportunity of a reconstruction of the West.

While the narco-socialist left throughout the West, Islamism allied with socialism, and some pathetic intellectuals weep over what they call “Anglo-Zionist imperialism,” American rulers reach agreement to advance security, freedom and prosperity.

At the Miami summit, the U.S. and twelve presidents take part. Among the leaders present are Javier Milei (Argentina), Rodrigo Paz Pereira (Bolivia), José Antonio Kast (Chile, to be sworn in this Wednesday), Rodrigo Chaves (Costa Rica), Luis Abinader (Dominican Republic), Daniel Noboa (Ecuador), Santiago Peña (Paraguay), Nayib Bukele (El Salvador), Irfaan Ali (Guyana), Nasry “Tito” Asfura (Honduras), José Raúl Mulino (Panama) and Kamla Persad-Bissessar (Trinidad and Tobago).

Hermann Tertsch is a Distinguished Fellow at the Gold Institute for International Strategy, a Washington D.C.-based foreign policy and defense think tank.