#Estados Unidos

The skyline of Shenzhen, in southern China, host city of the 2026 APEC summit, in a photograph from March 2025.

White House confirms Trump, Xi and Putin will meet in Shenzhen on Thursday to discuss nuclear weapons

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum at one of her morning press conferences, in 2024.

Sheinbaum says the CIA operated in Chihuahua outside Mexico's National Security Law and asks prosecutors to keep investigating

Rustem Umerov, head of Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service and of the Ukrainian delegation in Abu Dhabi, during a visit to the United States in December 2025.

Russia and Ukraine talk for nearly four hours in Abu Dhabi and return to the table on Wednesday

María Corina Machado at a press conference at the Valencia bar association, in Venezuela, in October 2023.

Transition in Venezuela

Machado and Edmundo González back the US plan to declare Venezuela's presidency vacant

Official portrait of Brad Cooper in 2021, when he was a vice admiral commanding the Fifth Fleet; he now heads US Central Command.

US creates task force to shut Iran's overland routes and take the blockade beyond the sea

Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) speaks to reporters at the Senate in Brasília in April 2026.

Brazilian senator Flávio Bolsonaro lands in Miami a day after police cancelled his passports

Viktor Orbán speaks in Kossuth Square, Budapest, on 15 March 2012, when he was prime minister of Hungary.

Trump administration pushes Viktor Orbán for UN Secretary-General, and Russia says it will not nominate him

The bay of Manta, in Ecuador's Manabí province, in 2015. All three trials of the fishermen are being heard in this city's criminal court.

Pacific strikes

Ecuador has cleared 32 of the 88 fishermen prosecuted after the US strikes, and rules on nine more on 29 October

The headquarters of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands, in May 2026.

International Criminal Court wins the 2026 Sakharov Prize, 13 days after the US sanctioned the court

The US Department of the Treasury headquarters in Washington, in a 2015 photograph. OFAC, which issues general licences, is part of the department.

US Treasury extends Venezuela earthquake-relief licence to April 2027

María Corina Machado at a press conference at the Valencia Bar Association in Venezuela, in October 2023.

Machado says Washington shut her out of the Caracas talks, and vows to return to Venezuela

Delegations from the Venezuelan government and the opposition at the opening of the negotiating table in Caracas on August 6, 2026.

Venezuela's government and part of the opposition open a third round of talks in Caracas, focused on electoral guarantees

Norwegian and US coalition troops during medical evacuation training at Al Asad air base in western Iraq in December 2024.

US-led coalition leaves Erbil air base, ending 23 years of foreign military presence in Iraq

Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira at the Palácio Itamaraty in Brasília, in April 2023.

Brazil and the US set up a tariff working group, with Washington due to send a proposal within weeks

The Petrobras headquarters in downtown Rio de Janeiro, pictured in 2012.

Petrobras signs 22-year deal to buy 800,000 tonnes of US LNG a year

A satellite image of the Strait of Hormuz, between Iran (north) and the Arabian Peninsula (south), captured by NASA's MODIS sensor in December 2020.

Trump rejects Iran's plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in seven days

The headquarters of the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral in Brasília, opened in December 2011.

Brazil's 2026 election

Almost a million Brazilians will vote abroad on October 4, and one in four of them lives in the United States

Delcy Rodríguez, then Venezuela's foreign minister, at the 49th Mercosur Summit in Asunción, Paraguay, in December 2015.

Delcy Rodríguez promises elections in Venezuela at the UN, but sets no date

Official portrait of Argentine Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno, released by the Cancillería in 2025. Quirno signed the Andes-Atlantic Corridor memorandum in New York.

Argentina and the US launch the Andes-Atlantic Corridor, with up to $7 billion for energy and mining

A Tomahawk missile launches from the destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur during a naval exercise in the Pacific in 2019. The UN report examines strikes by missiles of this type on targets in Iran in February 2026.

UN mission finds grounds to believe the US committed a war crime in Iran school strike