As the Taliban regain power in Afghanistan, the United States’ prestige is being shaken by harsh criticism.

Juan González, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Affairs, said that he intends to engage in a dialogue with Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) to update Iniciativa Mérida.

Millions of people feel overwhelmed and burdened by living conditions in their home countries, and in an effort to escape, they make the uncertain leap to the United States in search of the “American Dream.”

The new wave of migration from Ecuador to Mexico in hopes of getting to the United States draws similarities to the 1998 exodus of more than two million Ecuadorians who fled to Spain and the United States.

Despite concerns from analysts, a senior US representative has assured that Washington’s programs are already contributing to the reduction of corruption in the Northern Triangle countries of Central America.

The United States’ recent withdrawal from Afghanistan raises parallels with its earlier failed intervention in Colombia.

More than 178,600 undocumented migrants, many from Mexico and Central America, were detained last April at the border between Mexico and the United States.

Human rights groups have demanded that the Mexican and United States governments stop their massive deportations of immigrants in Mexican territory.

Hundreds of Central American migrants bound for the US have been transported to the remote borderland village of El Ceibo in northern Guatemala.

The U.S. placed visa restrictions on nineteen more members of the Nicaraguan government for their support of the dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo.