When Marco Rubio arrives in Latin America this weekend on his first foreign trip as Donald Trump's secretary of state, he'll find a region reeling from the new administration's shock-and-awe approach to diplomacy.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will likely travel to Central America in the first week of February, a source familiar with the planning said.

Greenland, Canada, the Panama Canal, Venezuela, and Cuba will likely consume his agenda should he be confirmed in the post

However, their simplistic argument does not withstand scrutiny. Evidence shows that U.S. sanctions significantly contributed to Venezuela’s economic implosion, while the easing of sanctions in recent years has been associated with a moderate economic recovery that has helped alleviate the worst of the country’s economic crisis.

(MENAFN- Newsroom Panama) Venezuela is waiting for migrants to return home after appointments to enter the US were cancelled under the new trump administration, President Nicolás Maduro said on ...

Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of state, spoke about China’s influence in the region and zeroed in on Mexico, Venezuela, and Cuba.

The most important series in Caribbean baseball, the 2025 Caribbean Series, kicks off this Friday, as the great precursor to the start of the 2025 Major League Baseball season. In

So Trump will likely get his way in more cases than not. But he shouldn’t celebrate just yet, because the short-term payoff of strong-arming Latin America will come at the long-term cost of accelerating the region’s shift toward China and increasing its instability. The latter tends, sooner or later, to boomerang back into the United States.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s first visit to Latin America will be only to certain US allies, including a very complex meeting in Panama.

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Tuesday expressed alarm at China's influence on the Panama Canal, which President Donald Trump has vowed the United States would take back.

Panama is inching closer to China, Trump’s new Federal Maritime Commission head Louis Sola tells CNBC, and ‘all options on the table’ to defend U.S. business.

As confirmation hearings begin for RFK Jr. nomination as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, many are focused on domestic agenda. The agency has a vast global scope as well.