The US denied visas to José A. Portal, Cuba’s Minister of Health and his delegation.

Jesús Alarcón immigrated to the United States eight years ago from San Luis Jilotepeque, Jalapa. Although he studied marketing and advertising in Jalapa, he worked with his parents in agriculture and livestock.

Juan Orlando Hernández followed in the footsteps of presidents Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, who in turn followed Guatemalan Jimmy Morales, and turned his country into a recipient of asylum seekers that Donald Trump does not want in the United States. 

An agreement made between the governments of the United States and Honduras will grant work visas to Honduran immigrants looking to work in agriculture, construction and other such professions.

El Salvador is already the protagonist in Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant policy.

Hazel Contreras, coordinator of the Americas Alliance in Central America, an organization that works in support of Latin American migrants, recently participated in an event organized by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Alianza Américas, and Flacso Guatemala.

Despite being offered a solution four months ago by President Jimmy Morales, migrants from Guatemala living in the USA are still waiting for the implementation of a policy that improves the attention they receive once outside their country.

The Mexican government rejected “categorically” the decision of the Organization of American States (OAS) to activate the International Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR), which opens the door to the “use of the armed force” against the government of Venezuela.

Amid the “wave of compliance” by Central American countries under pressure from the Donald Trump Administration, El Salvador’s establishment of a border patrol is another example of governments in the region bending to the American government’s influence.

Whereas the Mexican Government has already taken steps and is willing to continue working with the United States regarding immigration control, it rejects any possibility of interfering with the state’s sovereignty.