The success of President Donald Trump’s clampdown on a notorious Venezuelan criminal gang depends, at least in part, on years of bitter experience in Chile.

Chile’s central bank paused its cycle of interest rate cuts and left all options on the table for future borrowing cost adjustments, citing heightened uncertainty as well as domestic and global inflation risks.

Trump’s inaugural address centered on the evils of an alleged “invasion” of immigrants — although the flow of immigrants fell by nearly 70% last year — Latin American drug cartels and his vow to take over the Panama Canal, despite the fact that it has been very well managed by Panama for the past 25 years.

The Trump administration has a narrow window of opportunity to change course and counter Chinese influence in Latin America.

The White House signaled plans for executive orders, including ending birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants.

President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship is prompting lawsuits alleging he lacks the legal ground to end the right enshrined in the Constitution.

Despite other foreign-policy disagreements, a consensus is emerging among Republicans: The US must take an ultra-hawkish approach to Latin America.

As President Donald Trump rolls out his “America First” policies, few countries have more to lose than Mexico.

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.

"In an attempt to supposedly defend the dignity of undocumented migrants, he ended up damaging the dignity of all Colombians," Christian Garcés told The Latin Times

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Rift between US and Colombia, threats of tariffs on Mexico, designs on Panama Canal and mass deportations could encourage closer ties with Beijing