Secretary of State Marco Rubio embarks this weekend on his first foreign trip in office. He's heading to Central America to press President Donald Trump’s top priority — curbing illegal immigration — and bring the message that the U.

A key focus of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Central America this week — his first trip as America’s top diplomat — will be to counter China’s growing influence in the region, the State Department’s top spokesperson said this week,

China's presence around the Panama Canal is a national security concern that Panama's government has to deal with, Mauricio Claver-Carone, the U.S. special envoy for Latin America, said on Friday, ahead of U.