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State Department official says three gov’ts unlikely to be at Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles in June.

Panama City (AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken opened talks in Panama on Tuesday on a new diplomatic bid to check migration in Latin America, a rising cause of political headaches despite the global focus on Ukraine.

WASHINGTON — Divisions within the Biden administration over whether to continue talks with President Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela have deepened since a senior U.S. delegation met with him in Caracas last month, U.S. and Venezuelan opposition sources familiar with the discussions told McClatchy and the Miami Herald this week.

A year after announcing a review of U.S. policy toward Cuba, a top State Department official hinted the Biden administration was readying to move to increase visa processing in Havana.