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Shield of the Americas

2026

Summit held · proclamation signed · March 7, 2026

Current administration case · reviewed

Published · Visual edition October 6, 2026

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Donald Trump and participating leaders stand for the Shield of the Americas summit group photograph in front of national flags.

DOCUMENTARY EVENT PHOTOGRAPH

Shield of the Americas summit group photograph. Trump National Doral, Miami, Florida · March 7, 2026.

Photo source & use notes

Date: Photographed March 7, 2026; uploaded March 9, 2026

Place: Trump National Doral, Miami, Florida

Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok (opens in a new tab)

Asset-specific Flickr label: United States government work (opens in a new tab)

The photograph documents a gathering, not membership counts, legal force, implementation or confirmed crime reduction.

Flickr labels this item a United States government work. Its embedded terms also contain reproduction-permission and image-manipulation restrictions, and prohibit uses suggesting White House endorsement. The published image is shown unchanged.

Context & scope

A regional summit and a separate U.S. proclamation frame counter-cartel coordination, partner training and external threats. Commitments alone do not establish implementation or crime reductions.

Goal

Counter cartels within applicable law, deny their territory and resources, train partner militaries and address external threats: four commitments in the proclamation.

Action

Official captions record the Miami summit and a Doral Charter of Liberty signing ceremony. A separately titled U.S. proclamation sets out the counter-cartel commitments.

Established result

The sources establish the summit, caption-reported ceremony and signed proclamation. They do not establish that the proclamation is the charter or that the commitments were implemented.

Cost / open questions

Completed training, crime reductions, expenditures, harms, charter provisions and treaty status remain unestablished here. The later White House description of an alliance is administration framing.

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Commitment to Countering Cartel Criminal Activity (opens in a new tab)

Agency
White House
Source date
March 7, 2026 · proclamation signed
Document type
Presidential proclamation
Reading location
A separately titled U.S. proclamation sets out four commitments. The reviewed documents do not establish that this proclamation is the charter signed at the summit.
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