Rubio Ends South America Swing with Peru Security Talks
Rubio’s talks center on security, trade and El Niño planning, with Washington touting new cooperation agreements and about $1 billion in Colombia aid.
- On Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori at the Government Palace in Lima, marking the first high-level contact between Washington and her administration.
- This meeting concludes Rubio's three-day South American sweep, which began Tuesday in Colombia and continued Wednesday in Ecuador; Washington views all three new governments as newly sympathetic partners.
- The Peruvian presidency framed the talks as a chance to deepen strategic alliances, with security, organized crime, and trade on the agenda, alongside coordination on this year's El Niño weather pattern.
- Washington's regional strategy, which officials tie to the "Donroe Doctrine," aims to push back non-regional influence; in Colombia earlier this week, the U.S. committed roughly $1 billion in security assistance.
- U.S. Ambassador Bernie Navarro previously teased the visit, telling followers to expect "excellent news for our cooperation," while Rubio recently met Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa, calling the nation a key regional security partner.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to reporters in a departure lounge before returning to Washington following meetings with Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders, at Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport in Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis, on Feb. 25, 2026. (Jonathan Ernst / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)
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Rubio ends South America swing with Peru security talks
Rubio arrived in Lima after stops in Colombia and Ecuador, where he welcomed closer coordination against criminal gangs that Washington now describes as terrorist organizations. In Peru, Rubio will meet new President Keiko Fujimori and make joint statements to the press. The visit comes after Peru joined the "Shield of the Americas," a US-led coalition promoted by President Donald Trump to combat drug trafficking and organized crime across the …
Lima, Sep 9 (EFE).- The U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, landed this Wednesday in Peru to meet on Thursday with Peruvian president Keiko Fujimori, at the last stop of the South American tour that earlier this week took him to Colombia and Ecuador. Rubio arrived around 18.30 local time [...] The Marco Rubio ticket arrives in Peru to meet Fujimori and expand links in front of China was first published in HolaNews.
The visit, the first since the beginning of the new US administration at the end of July, completes a three-day tour that also included stops in Colombia and Ecuador
Rubio arrived around 18.30 local time, coming from Quito.
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