The effort to send the new group was stalled after Democrats lost the U.S. presidential election. Kenyan President William Ruto’s uncertainties about the fate of the Kenyan-led mission in Haiti seems to have been put to rest following comments from President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state.

Just hours after his release from prison on Thursday, Cuban opposition leader José Daniel Ferrer — one of the country’s most prominent political prisoners — called on the incoming Trump administration to make no concessions to Havana but at the same time help alleviate the island’s humanitarian crisis.

Former President Evo Morales claimed he was a “victim” to legal warfare carried out by his ally-turned-political-rival President Luis Arce and refused to appear in court. The populist leader has barricaded himself in the headquarters of the coca growers’ unions protected by up to three security cordons to avoid his arrest.

Cuba on Thursday released prominent dissident José Daniel Ferrer from prison, as part of a government decision to gradually free more than 500 prisoners following talks with the Vatican.

Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday the formation of a Canada-U.S. relations council to support the federal government as it deals with incoming U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 25% tariff on all imports from Canada.

Cuba started releasing some prisoners as part of talks with the Vatican, a day after President Joe Biden’s administration announced his intent to lift the U.S. designation of the island nation as a state sponsor of terrorism.

U.S. prosecutors said Wednesday that they’re discussing a potential plea deal with Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the long-elusive Mexican drug lord who was arrested last summer and whose son could testify against him if he goes to trial.

Coast Guard members opened fire off the coast of San Diego to disable a vessel smuggling people into the U.S. after two Mexican men on the boat attempted to evade a service patrol by ramming into them.

The determination could be quickly reversed after President-elect Donald Trump takes office and Secretary of State-designate Marco Rubio assumes the position of America’s top diplomat. Rubio favors sanctions on the communist island.

The latest information reveals that 1,041,000 people, many of whom have been displaced several times, are struggling amid an intensifying humanitarian crisis and widening gang violence.