LATAM POLITICS TODAY-Biden to go to border with Mexico

Washington coy on positioning on Venezuela’s Guaido

U.S. embassy in Cuba resumes full immigrant visa processing

Roughly 1 / 4 of Chileans assist Boric: ballot

Quick-lived ceasefire suspended between Colombia and ELN

Jan 4 (Reuters) – The most recent in Latin American politics in the present day:

Biden to go to border with Mexico, converse on immigration

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Joe Biden plans to offer a speech on immigration on Thursday and intends to go to the U.S.-Mexico border subsequent week, addressing a difficulty that has challenged the Democratic president throughout his first two years in workplace.

Biden advised reporters on the White Home after a go to to Kentucky that he desires to see “peace and safety” on the border. He mentioned earlier within the day that he supposed to go to the Southwest border however that particulars had been nonetheless being finalized.

Washington coy on Venezuela’s Guaido, nonetheless acknowledges 2015 Nationwide Meeting

WASHINGTON – America nonetheless acknowledges Venezuela’s 2015 Nationwide Meeting after a latest shakeup and can preserve coordinating with its former chief Juan Guaido “and different like-minded people,” the White Home mentioned.

Final month, Venezuela’s opposition Nationwide Meeting stripped Guaido of the title of interim president, which america has acknowledged since 2019.

In a press name, White Home Nationwide Safety Council spokesperson John Kirby mentioned america nonetheless acknowledged that meeting, elected in 2015, as Venezuela’s “final remaining democratic establishment.”

Requested whether or not Washington nonetheless acknowledged Guaido as interim president, Kirby mentioned he didn’t need to “get into hypotheticals” and promised america would “coordinate with him and different like-minded members” of the opposition legislature.

U.S. embassy in Cuba resumes full immigrant visa processing for first time since 2017

HAVANA – The U.S. embassy in Havana resumed full immigrant visa processing and consular companies for the primary time since 2017 in a bid to stem the record-breaking circulate of unlawful migrants from Cuba north to america.

The embassy slashed companies in 2017 after a number of of its employees had been stricken with a nonetheless largely unexplained ailment dubbed “Havana Syndrome.”

Cubans had been as a substitute required to journey to Guyana for visa processing, a pricey journey effectively out of attain for many on the island. The U.S. embassy in Havana started restricted visa processing final 12 months and in September introduced the 2023 full reopening, to “guarantee secure, authorized, and orderly migration of Cubans,” it mentioned.

Roughly 1 / 4 of Chileans assist Boric: ballot

Help for Chilean President Gabriel Boric fell sharply in 2022, a biannual public opinion ballot confirmed, amid a deteriorating economic system and two months earlier than the chief marks one 12 months in workplace.

The Chilean Heart for Public Research’ November-December ballot confirmed assist for Boric falling to 24% from the 32% registered in its earlier April-Could ballot.

Boric took workplace in March 2022 and his authorities has needed to cope with a slowdown in financial exercise, rising inflation, political instability ensuing from a constitutional rewrite course of, and a rise in violent crimes.

Colombia suspends transient ceasefire with ELN after rebels reject effort

BOGOTA – Colombia has known as off a ceasefire with the Nationwide Liberation Military (ELN) rebels, in an about-face after the left-wing guerrilla group mentioned it had not agreed to halt combating.

The reversal – lower than 4 days after a 6-month ceasefire was introduced – is a setback for plans by President Gustavo Petro to deliver peace to the Andean nation after practically sixty years of battle which has killed greater than 450,000 folks.

The federal government known as on the ELN to declare a verifiable truce whereas the problem is mentioned at negotiations, the subsequent spherical of that are set to happen in Mexico.

(Compiled by Natalia Siniawski and Isabel Woodford Enhancing by Peter Graff)

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