"Our job—where we can'is to provide Latin America with a choice," a U.K. government minister said on Thursday.

So Trump will likely get his way in more cases than not. But he shouldn’t celebrate just yet, because the short-term payoff of strong-arming Latin America will come at the long-term cost of accelerating the region’s shift toward China and increasing its instability. The latter tends, sooner or later, to boomerang back into the United States.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s confirmation hearings began Wednesday before the Senate Finance Committee and will be held Thursday before the Health, Education, Labor and Pension committee.

A childcare centre in Sydney was set alight early morning on Tuesday and antisemitic graffiti was sprayed on the wall, authorities said, the latest in a spate of attacks in Australia targeting the Jewish community.

President Donald Trump appeared to win Sunday’s showdown with Colombia, after Colombia appeared to accept military flights carrying deportees. But the faceoff could herald more conflict.

This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from Latin America and the Caribbean. The selection was curated by AP photographer Esteban Félix, based in Santiago, Chile. AP Images blog: http://apimagesblog.com

President Donald Trump found time during his busy inauguration day to issue ... United States and Mexico that links ports in five Southern states and Mexico with the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean with two passages — called the Florida Straits ...

Donald Trump’s promise to implement a mass deportation policy could have significant impacts on the economies of Latin America and the Caribbean, the primary destination for remittances sent by immigrants. Some countries’ economies depend heavily on these funds.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and President Donald Trump will discuss the Indo-Pacific region and bilateral support between Japan and the United States on Feb. 7.

ICE officials said they mostly rounded up immigrants with criminal backgrounds, but some immigrants and refugees in the U.S. legally said they still fear deportation.

The president of Haiti's transitional presidential council said the Trump administration's decisions to freeze aid programs, deport migrants and block refugees will be "catastrophic" for Haiti.

Uncertainty swept the nation this week when the Trump White House introduced a freeze on federal grants and loans, sending organizations across the country scrambling to figure out what would