Shield of the Americas Summit

The Shield of the Americas Summit was a one-day international meeting held on March 7, 2026, at the Trump National Doral Miami resort in Doral, Florida. Hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump in his second term, the summit brought together leaders and senior officials from roughly a dozen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to discuss coordinated action against transnational organized crime and above all drug cartels, as well as illegal emigration, money laundering, and what U.S. officials described as growing foreign interference in the Western Hemisphere, especially by China.

The gathering formally launched the Shield of the Americas , presented by the Trump administration as a standing mechanism for intelligence sharing, joint law enforcement operations, and in some cases direct military support targeting cartel leadership and infrastructure, including the joint United States and Ecuador attack on a group of FARC dissidents called Comandos de la Frontera during the Ecuadorian conflict (2024–present). The event was widely viewed as an alternative forum to the repeatedly postponed Ninth Summit of the Americas, deliberately limited to governments seen as ideologically compatible with the administration's priorities.