Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs

.@WHAAsstsecty: Estados Unidos está brindando a Bolivia asistencia alimentaria de emergencia y apoyo logístico para ayudar a quienes enfrentan una grave escasez de alimentos y medicamentos debido a los bloqueos de carreteras. Nos solidarizamos con el pueblo de Bolivia y con @Rodrigo_PazP.

The United States is providing Bolivia with emergency food assistance and logistics operations support to help those facing acute food and medical shortages due to roadblocks. We stand with the people of Bolivia and @Rodrigo_PazP.

Tras el mensaje sobre Cuba de @SecRubio, este video no ha salido de mi mente. Qué privilegio tener voz y voto en decidir quién gobierna y moldea el futuro de tu país. Es un honor liderar a los observadores de @USEMBASSYPERU para las elecciones peruanas. Juntos en democracia 🇺🇸🇵🇪

Honored to meet with Cuban pro-democracy leader @jdanielferrer, who has endured first-hand the repressive nature of the Cuban regime. Ferrer is a man of profound faith, a courageous Cuban dissident who was forced into exile for demanding basic freedoms.

Adys Lastres Morera is the sister of the Executive President of GAESA, the Cuban military-controlled financial conglomerate that steals millions in aid for the Cuban people at the behest of the regime. Morera was managing real estate assets and living in Florida, while also aiding Havana's communist regime, until I terminated her permanent resident status. I am pleased to announce that today, she was arrested and is now in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. There will be nowhere on this Earth - much less in our country - where foreign nationals who threaten our national security can live lavishly.

El Escudo de las Américas se solidariza con el presidente @Rodrigo_PazP y el gobierno constitucional de Bolivia. Rechazamos cualquier intento de sustituir la democracia por el gobierno de la turba.

The Shield of the Americas stands united with President @Rodrigo_PazP and Bolivia's constitutional government. We reject any attempt to replace democracy with mob rule: state.gov/releases/offic…

We encourage Guatemala to pass an anti-money laundering law that meets Financial Action Task Force (FATF) standards and helps close the door on narcotraffickers and criminals who put American and Guatemalan communities at risk. Passing such a law will promote the prosperity and security of America and Guatemala.x.com/usembassyguate…

SECRETARY RUBIO: Our preference in Cuba and anywhere in the world is always a negotiated diplomatic settlement. But if there’s a threat to our national security, the President has a right and an obligation to address that threat.

SECRETARY RUBIO: Cuba has been one of the leading sponsors of terrorism in the entire region. Having a failed state 90 miles from our shores run by friends of our adversaries poses a threat to the national security of the United States.

SECRETARY RUBIO: I have a letter in my pocket right now from humanitarian organizations already inside of Cuba prepared to do the distribution. We’re prepared to do more, but it must be distributed by groups not linked to the regime or GAESA, because they’ll just steal it.

Protecting the bounty of the world's oceans from illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing is a US global priority under @POTUS @realDonaldTrump and @SecRubio. Today the @StateDept used a new policy to restrict visa issuance for 24 individuals and revoked the visas of former Argentine 🇦🇷 official Pablo Ferrara and Mexican 🇲🇽 national Jose Ali Amado for enriching themselves through such activities. Those who illegally deplete the fishing resources available to the US and the world are not welcome in our country. 🐟🐠🐡🪝

Let there be no mistake: the United States stands squarely in support of Bolivia's legitimate constitutional government. We will not allow criminals and drug traffickers to overthrow democratically elected leaders in our hemisphere.

Today, Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned more than a dozen individuals and entities, comprising two distinct networks, linked to the terrorist Sinaloa Cartel and its fentanyl trafficking activities. The Sinaloa Cartel is responsible for a significant portion of the illicit fentanyl trafficked into the United States that kills tens of thousands of Americans each year.

Secretario Rubio: En un día como hoy, en 1902, la bandera cubana ondeó por primera vez sobre un país independiente. Pero sé que hoy, ustedes, quienes llaman a la isla su hogar, atraviesan dificultades inimaginables. EE.UU. ofrece ayudarlos no solo a aliviar la crisis actual, sino también a construir un futuro mejor.

Costa Rica’s INL-supported Coast Guard interdicted two vessels in the Pacific and seized 3.3MT of cocaine in just 24 hours. This year, its Coast Guard has seized 24.5MT of illicit drugs--4x the amount seized during the same period in 2025. 🇺🇸🇨🇷 security cooperation helps to protect our shores and our communities.

Mensaje en español del secretario Rubio al pueblo de Cuba. 🇺🇸🇨🇺

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Let there be no mistake: those who lost overwhelmingly at the ballot box in Bolivia last year are trying to overthrow President @Rodrigo_PazP by organizing RIOTS and BLOCKADES with the support of organized crime and drug traffickers. I spoke with my friend President Paz this afternoon, and assured him that the United States stands squarely in support of Bolivia's legitimate constitutional government and rejects this attempt to substitute the institutional order with mob rule.