The diplomatic relationship between the United States and Colombia is dominated by the trafficking problem.

The Foreign Assets Control Office (F.A.C.O) under the Treasury Department of the United States released four names of officials it penalized in the hopes of improving the poor economic governance and endemic corruption occurring in Venezuela.

In what will probably be his last visit to Chile in his diplomatic career, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas A. Shannon says that the United States aspires to be Chile’s main trading partner and assures that the immigration problem will be resolved in a “Chilean” manner.

President Enrique Peña Nieto said that building a border wall between Mexico and the United States is not a friendly gesture by US President Donald Trump.

President Trump will visit Peru and Colombia next month. This will mark his first trip to Latin America, a region that he has not stopped criticizing since his presidential campaign.

Honduras, the country with the fourth largest number of Dreamers, awaits a resolution to the DACA program.

Mexico states that the drug problem needs to be solved by both nations.

Cuba responded to the United States’ major reductions in its staffing of its embassy in Havana, saying they are based on purely political motivations, dismissing the alleged attacks to the U.S. diplomacy workers as completely unfounded.

Without a military invasion, coup d’état or even much disagreement amongst governments in the hemisphere, political relations between the US and Latin America have become worse than ever.

The attention brought to light regarding human rights violations against Guatemalan migrants has been forgotten since last March.