The suspension of foreign aid programs supporting democracy promotion in authoritarian countries has left many wondering if U.S. policy has abandoned that goal.

U.S. programs supporting opposition activists, political prisoners and religious groups in countries controlled by authoritarian parties in Latin America have been halted

Former Uruguayan President José “Pepe” Mujica expressed disappointment over the political situations in Nicaragua and Venezuela, according to Dominican President Luis Abinader. The two leaders met at Mujica’s home in Montevideo during Abinader’s visit for the inauguration of Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi.

After President Donald Trump nixed an oil deal between the U.S. and Venezuela forged by the Biden administration, Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., headlined a conference with Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó in Miami.

Beneficiaries of federal programs that have allowed migrants — including many from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela— to come to the United States have sued the Trump administration for ending the legal pathways that let them and hundreds of thousands of others to temporarily live and work in the U.

A group of American citizens and immigrants is suing the Trump administration for ending a legal tool presidents have used to allow people from countries with wars and political instability to come to the U.

The dismantling of a Biden-era program for Latin Americans has left them uncertain and their U.S.-based sponsors frustrated.

The lawsuit seeks to reinstate humanitarian parole programs that allowed in 875,000 migrants from Ukraine, Afghanistan, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who have legal U.S. residents as sponsors.

Trump has ended a legal tool that allowed those coming from countries where there's war or political instability to live in the US A group of American citizens and immigrants is suing the Trump administration for ending a long-standing legal tool presidents have used to allow people from countries where there's war or political instability to