The U.S. sent Latin American youths to Cuba to push for political change; it didn’t go well. 

After six years of living in Honduras Matthew Keister thinks he knows why children and adolescents, “at least those from the La Ceiba area,” (where he lives) are leaving for the United States, either with coyotes or entirely on their own.  

Moving children to, and over, the U.S. border is a big business; the region’s leaders say they are going to do something about it, but commentators are not so sure; Mexico plans to shut down traffic on “the beast.” 

During a signing the Governor of California, Jerry Brown, recommended that Mexican legislators get “tough” regarding the regulations that apply to private companies in the energy sector.  

The U.S. Government announced the revocation of visas for some Venezuelan officials allegedly involved in violations of human rights and repression of protests by opposition groups. 

The U.S. government “vigorously” condemned the arrest of approximately one hundred members of the Cuban dissident group Damas de Blanco (Ladies in White). 

The U.S. Department of Justice is gathering information to request the extradition of criminal chieftains. 

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio called on President Obama to take immediate action to impose visa bans and asset freezes on Venezuelan officials and their families involved in the brutal crackdown of peaceful protestors by the Maduro administration. 

A majority of the Uruguayan population does not approve receiving prisoners from the U.S. Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a decision made by the government of President José Mujica to help the US government in closing the prison there. 

The Central American child-migrant crisis is “one of the greatest tragedies” says Costa Rica’s President Luis Guillermo Solís.  Others called it a “humanitarian emergency” and a “social catastrophe.”