On the 12th of December, the US sent the first group of non-Guatemalan illegal migrants that had entered the US to Guatemala as part of a new cooperation between the countries. This preceded a meeting between the leaders of the two countries the following week. Among the first to be transported back were 7 Hondurans and 7 Salvadorans including children…. Read more »
A hostile Trump administration and crises in Venezuela have left the landmark Obama-era detente hanging in the balance. Five years ago the United States and Cuba agreed to resume diplomatic ties and begin normalising relations after more than 50 years of hostility. The thaw was hailed by many as a turning point in relations between the two countries, which had remained frozen in a Cold War-era standoff. But looking… Read more »
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump thanked Guatemala’s president Tuesday for becoming a more active partner in helping stem a tide of migrants seeking to gain asylum in the United States. Trump praised President Jimmy Morales during the leader’s visit to the White House, an invitation that came after Guatemala in July signed a “safe third country” agreement with the… Read more »
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala on Thursday received the first families of migrants sent by the United States under an agreement to return non-Guatemalans who passed through that country on their way to the U.S. border. The national migration agency confirmed the arrival of 14 people, seven from Honduras and seven from El Salvador and including children. The arrived on… Read more »
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government has asked the United States not to sign any final trade agreement with China until two Canadians detained in China have been released. It has been more than a year since China detained Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig in apparent retaliation for Canada’s arrest of a top Chinese tech executive, Meng Wanzhou. Meng… Read more »
Jair Bolsonaro, the President of Brazil, received an unpleasant shock from US President Donald Trump this weekend. While Trump was at the NATO conference in London, he sent out a series of tweets saying that the US would be imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum for both Brazil and Argentina. Bolsonaro took this quite harshly, as he has stated in… Read more »
PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — More than 1,500 supporters welcomed Suriname President Desi Bouterse as he returned Sunday to the South American country just days after a court convicted him in the 1982 killings of 15 political opponents. Bouterse dismissed the 20-year prison sentence that he received on Friday as he greeted supporters following an official trip to China. “There is… Read more »
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s U.S.-focused foreign policy efforts suffered a severe setback on Monday when his American counterpart Donald Trump pledged to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum on the South American nation. Trump initially leveled the threat by Twitter while accusing Brazil and neighboring Argentina, governed by U.S. allies Bolsonaro and Mauricio Macri, of manipulating… Read more »
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The head of one of the Dominican Republic’s largest drug trafficking organizations was arrested on Monday in Colombia, Dominican authorities said. César Emilio Peralta, widely known by his nickname César the Abuser, is accused of running a network that moved heroin and cocaine through Colombia, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and the United States. He… Read more »
LIMA, Dec 5 (Reuters) – Peru and Washington are in the final stages of talks on a deal to promote American investments in the South American country as part of a U.S. initiative to counter Chinese influence in the region, a Peruvian diplomat told Reuters. The United States launched its “Growth in the Americas” initiative in 2018 to bolster private-sector… Read more »