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Senators question experts during a hearing on national security and trade implications surrounding the Panama Canal.

The State Department said that IEDs were found around four municipalities in Tamaulipas state.

The U.S. tariffs and sanctions were fully drafted but not yet signed, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

‘We will receive our fellow citizens on civilian planes, without treating them like criminals,’ President Gustavo Petro said.

A deflated local currency, inflation, and an investor exodus has created a trifecta of financial woes for Brazilians.

Switching diplomatic allegiance from Taiwan to China has not brought the economic benefits that some countries have hoped for, the president said.

Trump has vowed to take back the Panama Canal. The United States ceded control of the waterway to the Central American country at the end of the last century.

The outgoing prime minister promised a ’strong and robust' response if the United States follows through with a 25 percent tariff on Canadian products.

The new secretary of state’s first official visit to Central America will include discussions on mass migration.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Venezuela is ‘governed by a narco-trafficking organization.’

Trump restated on Jan. 20 during his inaugural address that he wants to have the Panama Canal back under U.S. control.

Bolsonaro called the decision a huge disappointment to his millions of supporters.

The move comes in response to potential mass deportations of illegal immigrants from the United States under the incoming Trump administration.

The governor accused the Venezuelan leader of running a ‘narco-regime’ and calling ‘for an invasion of Puerto Rico.’

Requested by U.S. allies, the move is part of a deal for Cuba to release anti-communist protesters imprisoned in the country.