Issue Aug 19-25 2026: The U.S. government has deported hundreds of Mexicans to Guatemala and Honduras in recent months, according to U.S. officials cited by CBS and The New York Times.

Issue Aug 19-25 2026: Ecuador’s Minister of Defense, Gian Carlo Loffredo, has announced that his country is preparing to carry out military operations in cooperation with the United States and Colombia against armed drug trafficking organizations located along the Ecuador-Colombia border.

Issue Aug 19-25 2026: The United States set an extraordinary quota to import an additional 300,000 tons of beef tariff-free. Brazil is among the likely beneficiaries. Washington’s formal explanation is that Argentina already has a preferential pathway.