Government officials from Mexico, the United States, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador have claimed that migrants are often encouraged by coyotes or “organizers” who take advantage of migrants for their own self interests.

Cuba planned to interfere in Colombian affairs in an attempt to destabilize the country and impact the 2022 Colombian elections.

The Colombian government announced the closure of the border with Venezuela and other countries from January 16 to March 1 in the face of the new wave of COVID-19 infections.

Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei has confirmed increased cooperation and communication with the Mexican government to “address massive flows of irregular migration.”

Mexico is last on the list of eleven countries in Latin America in terms of completion of international recommendations against money laundering.

After an especially difficult economic cycle, Ford announced that they will close the remainder of their Brazilian plants and shift Latin American production to Argentina and Uruguay.

Three hundred indigenous Warao people migrated from Venezuela to Brazil during the first week of January 2021.

As Cuban trade was just beginning to recover, it suffered another disturbance due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On Dec. 31, 2020, the governments of Argentina and Bolivia agreed on a fifth addendum to the natural gas sales agreement of 2004, by which Argentina will receive up to 14 million cubic meters per day during the winter months in 2021.

Despite the global pandemic and border closings, refugees continue to flee Venezuela. Numbers of migrants are predicted to rise substantially once the Colombian border reopens.