President Trump gathered leaders from 12 Latin American countries at his golf club near Miami over the weekend at the inaugural summit of what Trump is calling the “Shield of the Americas.” Attendees included right-wing leaders Nayib Bukele of El Salvador and Javier Milei of Argentina. The leftist leaders of three of Latin America’s biggest economies — Brazil, Mexico and Colombia — were not invited. At the summit, Trump vowed to go after drug cartels and blasted foreign influence in the region, particularly Chinese economic and political interests. The summit comes just two months after the U.S. abducted Venezuela’s former President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.