Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, left, listens to U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during a press conference after a meeting in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018. Photo by Daniel Garzon Herazo/NurPhoto/Sipa USA. PA Images. All rights reserved.
Paradoxically, the most relevant feature about the recent journey of the US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, to Latin America did not happen in the region, but in the United States.
When his visit to Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Colombia and Jamaica was announced, the prominent points in his political agenda were already known: the very grave socio-economic and political-institutional situation in Venezuela and the search for a treatment combining stronger diplomatic pressure on Caracas from several countries of the region and the threat of US sanctions.
