Michael G. Kozak: “Russia clearly is involved with Venezuela. They very visibly sent troops there to try to buck up Maduro.”

But for those who seek to maintain the status quo, we will not let them use our assistance as a facade for their lack of political will to make real reform.

We expect our partners in Central America to show political will to break with the past to curb unsafe and illegal immigration and corruption.

Nine of the 15 countries that recognize Taiwan are in Latin America and the Caribbean, and we are doing everything we can to keep it that way.

China is following, to me, what appears like a 19th century imperialist model in merchantilism and government agencies and so on.