Iran’s influence in the Triple Border Area (TBA) of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay has raised security concerns for the U.S. government. 

During the one-hour oral argument concerning hedge fund NML Capital Ltd’s efforts to seek payment of court judgments it says are worth around $1.7 billion, several U.S. Supreme Court justices suggested that military and diplomatic assets should be off-limits, which would narrow the scope of the ruling. 

Ecuador’s government asked the U.S. embassy in Quito for withdrawal of the so-called “military group” of 50 military personnel because the “bilateral security relationship should be governed by mutual respect.” 

The “ideological bias” of International Monetary Fund analysts has never changed, and their recommendations helped prompt the “worst” social and productive crisis in the history of the Republic of Argentina. 

Cuban leader Raúl Castro has decried “subversive” tactics by the US following reports that the latter’s Agency for International Development (USAID) had introduced a mobile phone-based network into Cuba aimed at undermining the communist state.  

Al Jazeera ran “Borderland,” part documentary, part reality show, that examined the plight of migrants trying to enter the United States illegally. 

Mexico not only ranks second on the list of countries whose citizens travel to the U.S., its people are also the fourth biggest spenders when visiting the country. 

The President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, met privately with the Secretary of Homeland Security of the United States, Jeh Johnson, and in a statement noted that the governments of Mexico and the United States endorsed cooperation on various topics in their comprehensive bilateral agenda. 

Uruguay will welcome Guantanamo detainees at the request of President Obama. 

Zach Dyer wrote in The Tico Times of San José, Costa Rica that Central America is growing as a popular tourist destination for U.S. travelers abroad, according to figures published by the U.S. Commerce Department in late February.