Amid economic growth, Brazil reported a US $6.281 billion trade surplus in March 2018, resulting from a 16.9% increase in imports compared to 2017.

President Trump published two tweets sharply criticizing the U.S.’s immigration laws, several Latin American countries, and calling on Congress to act immediately.

A recent study by Pew Research Center shows that high numbers of Hispanic parents speak to their children in Spanish, but with each generation, the percentage of Spanish spoken drops while the percentage of English spoken increases.

In a diplomatic address, the United States Ambassador to Nicaragua, Laura Farnsworth Dogu, remarked that the conditions in Nicaragua are “uncertain” due to decisions made by Nicaraguan leaders and international actors.

Kate Doyle, an analyst from the National Security Archive, insisted that it is vitally important to pressure officials to use archives about the war to demand justice in Salvadoran courts.

Peru’s Minister of Trade and Tourism (Mincetur), Eduardo Ferreyros, announced that, as the United States imposes tariffs on China’s steel and aluminum manufacturers, Peru’s industry will not be directly affected.

The diplomatic relationship between the United States and Colombia is dominated by the trafficking problem.

The Foreign Assets Control Office (F.A.C.O) under the Treasury Department of the United States released four names of officials it penalized in the hopes of improving the poor economic governance and endemic corruption occurring in Venezuela.

In what will probably be his last visit to Chile in his diplomatic career, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas A. Shannon says that the United States aspires to be Chile’s main trading partner and assures that the immigration problem will be resolved in a “Chilean” manner.

President Enrique Peña Nieto said that building a border wall between Mexico and the United States is not a friendly gesture by US President Donald Trump.