"Our job—where we can'is to provide Latin America with a choice," a U.K. government minister said on Thursday.

China's presence around the Panama Canal is a national security concern that Panama's government has to deal with, Mauricio Claver-Carone, the U.S. special envoy for Latin America, said on Friday, ahead of U.

Mexico announced plans to curb imports from China across key industries including automobiles, aerospace technology, and textiles. Peru launched investigations into alleged Chinese

While Rubio’s anti-China rhetoric aligns with Washington’s broader geopolitical goals, the tools at his disposal are insufficient to match Beijing’s economic engagement.

So Trump will likely get his way in more cases than not. But he shouldn’t celebrate just yet, because the short-term payoff of strong-arming Latin America will come at the long-term cost of accelerating the region’s shift toward China and increasing its instability. The latter tends, sooner or later, to boomerang back into the United States.

LSE IDEAS analyse China’s growing presence in Latin America concerning trade, diplomacy, and strategic influence

The unprecedented pause and potential elimination of many U.S. foreign assistance programs, announced in President Trump’s executive order “Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid,” has caused shock waves worldwide.

Felipe Chapman and Foreign Affairs Minister Javier Martínez-Acha discussed Trump’s claim over the canal at the International Economic Forum Latin America and the Caribbean

President Sheinbaum, having previously spoken against American intervention in battle against the crime lords, is changing her tune.

Trump says that he’s “serious as a heart attack” when he promises to impose tariffs on everyone, including a 25% tariff on Canadian and Mexican imports. When he backtracked on tariffs on Colombian imports, he revealed what most already thought: his tariff threats are mostly a negotiation tactic.

Most humanitarian agencies operate just ahead of insolvency in the best of times, Nate Radomski, the executive director of American Jesuits International, says.