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This article aims to examine the geostrategic competition between the United States and China in Latin America and the Horn of Africa, as well as its implications on human security in the two regions. The paper attempts to demonstrate how the geostrategic factors in the two regions brought competition between the two global powers and how the competition exacerbates the human security crisis (personal and political) in Ethiopia, Nicaragua, Somalia, and Venezuela. It does this by using a qualitative approach from both primary (semi-structured interviews with experts) and secondary data sources (articles, books and institutional reports). In addition, the authors used data on the death toll, injured people, political prisoners and displaced people as indicators to measure the impact of the geostrategic competition on human security. The article also illustrates how authoritarian regimes in the case studies sustain their power by receiving economic and political incentives from the competing global powers, which undermines human security in the case studies. Finally, the article provides an overview of US economic sanctions, introduced against each of the four cases, which differ in scope.