According to U.S. President Donald Trump via Twitter, “if we don’t separate them, many more people will come.”

United States authorities assured that Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández’s brother is a “large-scale” drug trafficker who worked with criminal organizations in Colombia, Honduras, and Mexico in order to bring cocaine to the United States.

The government of the United States is considering imposing sanctions on Cuban military and intelligence officials for aiding the Venezuelan government in repressing dissidents.

The Office of Foreign Assets (OFAC) of the United States has announced it will impose sanctions against two members of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s administration.

Throughout the 25-year span since the death of Pablo Escobar, chief of the Medellín, Colombia drug cartel, not much has changed in the United States’ War on Drugs except the “stage” of this narco-trafficking, which extends now into Mexico among additional nations.

News covering the caravans of migrants moving north from various countries of Central and South America have riddled nearly every news source.

Local governments throughout Mexico are helping the caravan of migrants on their journey from Central America to the United States.

— Researched and Written by Rachel Rosenberg— On October 13, 2018, a caravan of migrants departed from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, bound for the Southern border. Days later a second formed, and a third followed. These migrant caravans are conglomerates of refugees fleeing endemic violence and poverty in the Northern Triangle region (Guatemala, Honduras, and

At a meeting of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI), delegations from Canada and the United States warned that violence and repression by the Ortega Regime in Nicaragua could provoke a migrant crisis similar to Venezuela—where more than 2.3 million Venezuelans have fled their country because of a food crisis and political persecution.

The caravan of migrants that started in Honduras and is currently going through Mexico elicited threats from president Trump and incited humanitarian and law enforcement efforts by Mexico and several Central American nations.