April 3 (UPI) -- A new geopolitical concept is beginning to take shape in Washington, and Costa Rica should pay attention to it.
The idea is called "Greater North America." It is not a treaty, a legal framework or a formal international organization. It is a strategic doctrine associated with recent statements by Pete Hegseth, secretary of the Department of Defense, and with the broader security outlook of President Donald Trump's administration.
Speaking at the inaugural Americas Counter Cartel Conference at U.S. Southern Command headquarters in Doral, Fla., on March 5, Hegseth said Trump had "reestablished the Monroe Doctrine," and announced that the Pentagon now calls the region north of the equator "the Greater North America."
A redrawn map
Hegseth described a zone stretching from Greenland to Ecuador and from Alaska to Guyana, covering every sovereign state and territory north of the equator. In his words, this area is not part of the "Global South," but forms the United States' "immediate security perimeter."
