The US plan for countering China in South America

In May 2025, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio publicly touted the idea of using Paraguay’s surplus electricity from the Itaipu Dam to power American data centers and artificial intelligence infrastructure. On the surface, this appeared to be a pragmatic proposal. But beneath the rhetoric of innovation lies a deeper geopolitical strategy rooted both in
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