The US has begun deporting migrants to Guatemala, with two military planes carrying 80 Guatemalans arriving Friday in the Central American country. The move marks the start of President Donald Trump administration’s massive operation to deport migrants.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Central America for his first trip as the top US diplomat. Rubio is expected to depart late next week for Panama, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to visit Panama — the country whose canal President Donald Trump has suggested he’d seize — as early as next week, according to three U.S. officials briefed on the plan.

Rubio will depart on his first foreign trip to visit countries in Central America that may be vital for carrying out the Trump administration's mass deportation plans.

China's expanding footprint in Latin America is expected to be high on the agenda when US Secretary of State Marco Rubio visits Panama next week on his first overseas trip since taking office, according to observers.

(AP Photo/Agustin Herrera) Venezuela’s opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez waves a Venezuelan flag during a meeting with supporters in Panama City, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Agustin Herrera) GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader ...

Trump needs to ask himself what would be more impressive: to be known as the president who did what 11 other presidents could not do (free Cuba) or the guy who shaved a few bucks off canal tolls.

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He slaps a 25% tariff on Colombian goods and imposes a raft of visa restrictions. Latin American nations are grappling with how to deal with Trump on his signature issue.

The White House is claiming victory in a showdown with Colombia over accepting flights of deported migrants from the U.S., hours after President Donald Trump threatened steep tariffs on imports and other sanctions on the longtime U.

The United States and Colombia, long close partners in anti-narcotics efforts, are clashing over the deportation of migrants and imposed tariffs on each other’s goods in a show of what countries could