With just a few weeks to go before the friendly baseball match between the Tampa Rays and the Cuban national team, which United States President Barack Obama will attend, the authorities in the island have accelerated the renovation of the Latino stadium in La Habana where the game will be hosted.

The government of Ecuador rejected a report by the State Department of the United States about drug trafficking and branded it a “retaliation” for the Ecuadorian attitude of requiring fewer and fewer “alms” from Washington for the fight against drugs.

Estela de Carlotto, the president of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo believes that Obama should not go to the Espacio Memoria y Derechos Humanos (ex ESMA) and stated that they would be delivering a memo to the North American embassy with their request. 

Unasur and Venezuelan officials expressed outrage at the U.S. decision. 

Former Mexican President, Vicente Fox, disagrees with Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall along the United States and Mexico border.

The Obama administration has allowed for a change between US-Cuban relations to be more open with one another. 

President Jimmy Morales met with several US officials to address issues between the two countries.  

On March 24, following President Barack Obama’s historic visit to Cuba, he may participate in an official ceremony in Argentina commemorating the 40th anniversary of the last military coup, which has divided the country’s human rights groups.

The third annual Miami Mini Maker Faire was celebrated on the weekend of February 22, and included the participation of Cuban innovators and artists. 

The Obama administration approved the opening of the first American factory in Cuba in over half a century, by authorizing an Alabama company to build a plant to assemble up to 1000 small tractors per year for their resale to independent Cuban farmers.