Latin American nations split over Venezuela's Maduro capture as regional summit fails to reach consensus, exposing a new shift to the right across the Western Hemisphere.

The tactical success of his operation in Caracas appears to have whetted Donald Trump’s appetite for intervention

Trump’s inclination to focus American foreign policy on the Western Hemisphere is completely at odds with the reality of the world. Of the world’s ten largest economies, only one is in Latin America (Brazil).

President Trump has launched a new era of U.S. intervention in Latin America. Some regional leaders are celebrating, while many others are deeply concerned.

The following is a deep look at contemporary Venezuela, its history, its riches, its alliances and its delicate internal balance of power amid growing tensions with the US.

The operation in Venezuela has echoes of Panama in 1989. But in ordering President Maduro’s capture, Trump has broken with long-standing US policy in Latin America.

What a difference it makes to have a president who takes an America First agenda in the Western Hemisphere seriously, and whose actions finally match his words. For decades, U.S. […] The post The America First Hemisphere: Why Marco Rubio Is the Key to Trump's Latin American Revival first appeared on Miami's Community News.

The United States, which on Saturday attacked Venezuela and is said to have abducted its president, has a long history of military interventions and support for dictatorships in Latin America.

Latin America is spread over both North and South America, with 19 sovereign states and one independent territory. Most of them considered developing nations. Many people have had ambitions of combining them to form a larger nation.

GEOGRAPHY and economics, aided by time and the progress of industrial science, afford more than sufficient explanation for the change recently witnessed in the relationship of Latin America to its two magnets of political and economic attraction, a change ...

China was among several countries that condemned U.S. actions, though other nations responded with messages of support or appeared to struggle to find the right words to describe the unusual use of force against a sovereign country and its president.