Nine different Nicaraguan officials were sanctioned by the U.S. Department of Treasury on November 15th.

In a speech during the 26th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP26), in Glasgow, Scotland, the former president of the United States defended the union between countries to curb global warming and criticized the absence of presidents of some of the most polluting nations in the world, such as China, Russia, and Brazil.

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The ambassador of the United States, Jean Manes, said that relations with El Salvador are “not solid.”

On October 8th, the United States government expressed interest in updating the security and safety policies with Mexico, and it particularly addressed violence and drug trafficking rates.

The U.S. embassy denied the ruling party’s allegation of conspiring to break the majority in Congress, controlled by allies of President Nayib Bukele.

“We see that inflation expectations are very well anchored in the country,” said Nigel Chalk, acting director of the Western Hemisphere Department of the International Monetary Fund. He noted that Mexico “is recovering rapidly after the pandemic.”

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro made several efforts to prevent Alex Saab, Colombian businessman and close ally to the Venezuelan government, from being extradited to the United States for money laundering.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken promised to broaden Washington’s relationships beyond security funding in the struggle to promote democracy in Latin America.

The administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has repeatedly asserted the end of the Merida Initiative, the security cooperation program between Mexico and the United States that aimed to combat the threat of drug trafficking for more than a decade.