Alianza País, a movement in Upper Manhattan, urges the Junta Central Electoral (JCE) to give them official recognition in order to participate in the 2016 elections.  

Journalist Jorge Ramos from Univision, who was ousted from a Donald Trump press conference, said that in Donald Trump’s case, there is no longer room for appeasement, “there is only room for fight and confrontation.” 

Secretary of State John Kerry observed the raising of the American flag at the reopening of the US embassy in Havana, Cuba.

The U.S. government decided not to invite dissidents of the Cuban government to the ceremonial opening of the U.S. embassy last week.

Todd Robinson, the US Ambassador to Guatemala expressed hope that Guatemala’s Congress would approve reforms before upcoming elections.  “We urge the judiciary to act quickly to solve pending legal matters,” the ambassador said.

To increase access to U.S markets, Uruguay is pushing its antibiotic-free meats which will appeal to a distinct audience of Americans.

The very image of the two countries’ flags being raised represents a huge advance in the thawing of relations between them. 

On July 20, Cuba reopened its embassy in Washington, “an event that was the result of Cuban resistance and Latin American pressure in recent years.” 

The Cuban government still demands that the United States lift the economic embargo and close the military base at Guantánamo Bay. 

The State Department’s annual human rights report for 2014 put Cuba and Venezuela on its “black list,” but also had plenty of criticism to pass around for other countries in the region.