On March 1, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar met with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and held meetings with other government leaders to discuss U.S.-Mexico relations in security and economics.

Alejandro Giammattei, President of Guatemala, held a meeting with United States Republican Congressman Rick Crawford to discuss security, investment, and bilateral relations between the two nations.

U.S. Senator Robert “Bob” Menéndez will meet virtually with Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso to discuss the development of closer ties between the two countries.

The United States requested Juan Orlando Hernández’s extradition to stand trial.

The U.S. suspended all Mexican avocado imports from the state of Michoacán after a U.S. plant safety inspector in Mexico allegedly received a threatening phone call.

The U.S. Embassy has petitioned the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) of Honduras for the arrest and extradition of a Honduran politician.

In response to threats from gangs and other terrorist groups to gain power and instill fear throughout the nation, Colombia seeks the assistance of the United States.

The Cuban government released an official statement demanding that the United States end the blockade that it imposed on the island more than 60 years ago.

In an open letter to the United States, the former President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, responded to the U.S.’s decision to revoke his visa for acts of corruption.

Latin America has long been considered the United States’ “backyard,” and its “zone of influence.” Now, environmental groups in the region say, it has become its “garbage dump.”