Experts told Newsweek that Beijing could use the Trump administration's withdrawal of USAID to boost influence in the Caribbean.

China has made significant inroads in the Caribbean in recent years, with Beijing investing heavily in the region to increase its economic and diplomatic influence

Boats transporting migrants depart from the Caribbean coastal village of Miramar, Panama, for the Colombian border, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, as migrants return from southern Mexico after ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A boat departs to Colombia from Gardi Sugdub on Panama’s Caribbean coast, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, carrying ...

The Carnival Venezia sailed from Port Canaveral in late February for a 14-night cruise to the Southern Caribbean and the Panama Canal. Featuring visits to seven destinations in the region, the itinerary is part of Carnival Cruise Line’s Carnival Journeys program.

Costa Rica and Panama are coordinating to expedite southbound migrant transit through their countries along the same route that carried hundreds of thousands north in recent years.

Venezuelan migrant Veiker Queral boards a boat departing from Panama's Caribbean coastal village of Miramar to the border with Colombia, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. The migrants are returning from southe

Officials in Costa Rica and Panama are confiscating migrants’ passports and cellphones, denying them access to legal services and moving them between remote outposts as they wrestle with the logistics of a suddenly reversed migration flow.

Panama said on Tuesday that it's working to formalize a route long used to smuggle migrants on the way to the U.S., which is now being increasingly used to return migrants to South America in a reverse flow triggered by the Trump administration.

Venezuelan migrant Gabriela Villanueva, center, carries her daughter onto a boat in Puerto Cartí, Panama, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, en route to the Caribbean island of Gardi Sugdub. From there ...

have paid boats to carry them back to South America along the Caribbean Sea pressing up against Panama. Migrants are then dropped off in northern Colombia, where many continue on their journeys.