U.S. president Donald Trump has apparently confused Spain for a member of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, causing some head-scratching and jitters over possible tariffs in Madrid.

However, in his presidential election campaign and since taking office on 20 Jan. 2025, Trump has been critical of the EU and has demanded the bloc's cooperation in different manners under the threat of imposing tariffs of between 10 and 20 percent on all imported EU goods.

When Marco Rubio arrives in Latin America this weekend on his first foreign trip as Donald Trump's secretary of state, he'll find a region reeling from the new administration's shock-and-awe approach to diplomacy.

U.S. duties could nudge the European Union toward protectionist measures and away from free trade.

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump has apparently confused Spain for a member of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, causing some head-scratching and jitters over possible ...

Trump Mistakes Spain for a Member of the BRICS Bloc and Repeats the Threat of Massive Tariffs BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump has apparently confused Spain for a member of ...

Venezuela exported millions of barrels of its heavy oil to the U.S. until the economic sanctions of 2019. Its purchase resumed two years ago. Experts explain the characteristics of this crude oil, while Donald Trump says that he will "probably" stop buying it.

"Our job—where we can'is to provide Latin America with a choice," a U.K. government minister said on Thursday.

A senior Trump administration official has traveled to Venezuela to urge Nicolas Maduro’s government to take back deported migrants who’ve committed crimes in the U.S. and release a handful of Americans imprisoned,

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So Trump will likely get his way in more cases than not. But he shouldn’t celebrate just yet, because the short-term payoff of strong-arming Latin America will come at the long-term cost of accelerating the region’s shift toward China and increasing its instability. The latter tends, sooner or later, to boomerang back into the United States.

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