U.S. President Donald Trump's designation of drug cartels as terrorist organizations heightens the risk of U.S. criminal prosecutions for American companies operating in parts of Latin America and migrants to the United States,

The United States has pushed for countries around Latin America to receive third-country migrants after U.S. President Donald Trump came to power, pledging to tighten the southern border and implement the mass deportation of migrants.

For the first time in nearly 50 years, the United States, under the leadership of President Donald Trump, has made Latin America the top priority of U.S. foreign policy. One of the most important signals the administration sent was directing Secretary of State Marco Rubio to make his first international trip to Latin America.

Amherst College Political Science Professor Javier Corrales has spent his career studying the processes of democratization and autocratization in nations throughout Latin America — and he sees a very familiar and troubling pattern developing in the United States.

The Trump administration’s deployment to Latin America in recent days offered a nugget of insight into the president’s unusual worldview. In Panama City, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sternly told President José Raúl Mulino that the United States would take “measures” if Panama did not reduce Chinese influence over the Panama Canal — an ominous

While Latin America has featured prominently in the new US administration’s foreign policy, the suspension of vital aid and censoring of official discussion on climate change are directly at odds with Trump’s stated security priorities in the region.

While the Trump administration says it has suspended foreign aid as part of its efforts to reign in wasteful government spending, some policy analysts say that foreign aid makes up less than 1% of the federal government’s budget — and that cutting it could work against US interests.

A growing number of Latin American migrants who have given up hope of reaching the United States are returning to their home countries in South America through a sea route in Panama, which poses new risks,

A robust compliance culture, inspired by U.S. enforcement efforts, has spread across a region plagued by corruption.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio traveled to the region and warned of Chinese encroachment. Several Latin American countries expanded trade and investment relations with China.

Latin America offers more telling parallels for what to expect from U.S. authoritarianism—and better lessons on how to fight back.

Under its policy of "strategic autonomy," India has been expanding its presence in Latin America. Until now, it has been heavily concentrated on China, "Schlosser said in Rio, before traveling to India ten days later where the deal was finalized and signed on February 12.