COMMENTARY With reggaeton star Bad Bunny's support, and after seeing President Trump's terrifying start, independence movements in territories like Puerto Rico and Greenland look energized.

COMMENTARY If Mexican and Latin American leaders are stunned by President Trump's thug behavior, maybe it's because they never imagined the U.S. would elect a guy who looks like so many of them.

COMMENTARY We thought former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was imitating President Trump's Jan. 6 thuggery — but it turns out he was allegedly, and quite chillingly, upstaging Trump the whole time.

COMMENTARY: Republicans call the trial of a former president in Colombia 'unacceptable' political reprisal — but what's truly unacceptable is the retribution Trump's unleashing in America.

COMMENTARY President Trump's USAID freeze is a doubly self-defeating mistake: it emboldens Latin American dictators he claims to scare and raises the despair of migrants he wants to keep out.

COMMENTARY Despite the admirably humane work immigrant advocates do, they also need to remember the political pragmatism that drives the issue — and which drove voters to Trump.

COMMENTARY President Trump says Latin America needs America "much more than we need them." Not anymore: his Jan. 6 pardons destroyed the rule-of-law example Latin America did need from us.

COMMENTARY Cuba should not be on the U.S.'s state sponsors of terrorism list. Dissidents should not be in Cuba's prisons. A new deal gives Havana and President Trump a better opportunity to fix that.

COMMENTARY Venezuelans shouldn't be surprised if Trump sees more political dividends in cutting an oil-and-deportees deal with Maduro instead of tightening the regime-change screws.

COMMENTARY If President-elect Trump wants to thwart China's canal influence in Panama, he needs to offer the isthmus partnership instead of petulance — and a more serious ambassador pick.