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

A new UN report relies on a US government-funded operative, Felix Maradiaga, who helped instigate the violent 2018 coup to remove President Daniel Ortega in 2018. Yet UN “experts” have refused to interview the many Nicaraguans kidnapped and tortured by the opposition.

The policy change would revoke the legal status of migrants in the program, and make them targets of ICE deportation raids.

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.

The Trump administration is preparing to terminate the legal status of over 1.8 million migrants who benefited from various temporary humanitarian

Nicaragua announced on Thursday it would withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council, following a UN report that urged the international community to address human rights violations by President Daniel Ortega's government.

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.

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.

Refugees had been arriving in the United States at levels unseen in nearly three decades, aided by nonprofits and ordinary people across the political spectrum

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.

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.