Venezuela, a country with the largest oil reserves in the world, is on the brink of a complete economic collapse through hyperinflation, food and medicine shortages, protests, and major debt.

The United States has indefinitely suspended the issuance of visas to Cubans from its embassy in Havana, withdrawn 60% of the embassy personnel, and asked Americans not to travel to Cuba.

Forced to leave their homeland because of a lack of opportunities or to pursue their goals, Guatemalan migrants maintain contact with their home country and many closely follow the latest developments that have taken place at home.

The United States government has recently passed a total ban on travel by citizens to North Korea and Chad, with travel restrictions to Venezuela, Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, and Yemen limited to officials and their families.

Thus far, in 2017, United States foreign policy towards Latin America has reflected President Trump’s campaign promises.

After hurricanes in the United States left approximately one million vehicles in a state of “total loss,” there is concern that many of them may arrive in Paraguay to be resold.

Eulogio Del Pino, Minister of Oil in Venezuela, accused the US of attempting to destabilize oil prices.

Trump has threatened to “decertify” Colombia, designating it an uncooperative country in the fight against illicit drugs. The statistics on which this decertification is based, however, show merely an incomplete story.

Guatemalan Juan José Jiménez is a roofer in Maryland, USA. He migrated to the United States fifteen years ago “in search of the opportunities that he couldn’t find in his country.”

Twenty-one staff members at the United States Embassy in Havana have been directly affected by an alleged “sonic attack” which occurred during a meeting towards the end of 2016.