Issue Feb 07-13 2024: The self-designated ‘caravan of poverty’ (made up of at least 24 nationalities, with a strong presence of Guatemalans, Hondurans, Salvadorans, and Nicaraguans) is the latest of the large migrations that we are seeing from our region to the United States.

Issue Feb 07-13 2024: Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador received United States Homeland Security Advisor to the White House Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall in the National Palace, where he pledged his administration’s commitment to work with the United States on regional migration issues.

Issue Feb 07-13 2024: Venezuelan emigrants migrate in precarious conditions that make integration difficult in their receiving countries and impede their access to the migrant regularization process which leads to their return to Venezuela, according to research from the Observatorio de Investigaciones Sociales en Frontera (Odisef).

Issue Jan 31-Feb 06 2024: In a forum at the Mexico Institute of the Wilson Center in Washington D.C., Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz, the former Partido de Acción Nacional senator, made a series of statements that are harmful to national sovereignty and violate Mexico foreign policy.

Issue Jan 31-Feb 06 2024: Buses with migrants leave from Managua again. Almost one hundred Nicaraguans have been detained while trying to illegally cross into the United States.

Issue Jan 31-Feb 06 2024: The refusal of President Gustavo Petro to denounce the disqualification of Venezuelan opposition candidate María Corina Machado has cost the Colombian leader criticism from his international allies.

Issue Jan 24-30 2024: Joe Biden asked the Republicans in Congress to approve a bipartisan law proposal that would control immigration by allowing Biden to “shut down the border” until the number of migrant crossings is lower.

Issue Jan 24-30 2024: U.S. National Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas held a virtual reunion on January 30th with new Guatemalan Minister of the Interior Francisco Jiménez.

Issue Jan 24-30 2024: Colombia is exporting mango to the United States for the first time, arriving in Savannah, Georgia, at the end of December.

Issue Jan 17-23 2024: The United States Special Presidential Advisor for the Americas, Christopher Dodd, will travel to Ecuador for three days to discuss plans for security cooperation in the midst of the South American country’s declared internal armed conflict.