A political consensus against trade with communist Cuba that has prevailed in Washington for half a century is showing signs of cracking. 

The U.S. government denied again that it has had anything to do with alleged plots reported by Venezuela. 

The United States criticized Cuban censorship after Cubans were blocked from an independent website that is challenging the state monopoly on news on the island. 

Cuba has arrested four Miami-based Cuban exiles suspected of planning attacks on military installations with the goal of promoting anti-government violence on the island. 

The US government has begun a competitive project on reducing child labor and improving labor rights and working conditions in Honduras, “particularly in the agricultural areas of southern Honduras and in the San Pedro Sula area.” 

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.