{"id":13593,"date":"2026-10-19T19:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T23:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/?p=13593"},"modified":"2026-10-19T19:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T23:19:15","slug":"the-great-america-stretches-from-canada-to-tierra-del-fuego-washington-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/the-great-america-stretches-from-canada-to-tierra-del-fuego-washington-says-19102026\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Great America\u2019 Stretches from Canada to Tierra Del Fuego, Washington Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau began a three-day visit to Paraguay, where he announced that U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are interested \u201con refocusing attention on the Western Hemisphere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>RELATED:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/trump-approval-falls-to-new-low-of-33-two-weeks-before-midterms\/\">Trump Approval Falls to New Low of 33% Two Weeks Before Midterms<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Landau specified that their attention is focused specifically on \u201cthe Great America,\u201d a territory that Washington considers extending from Canada to Tierra del Fuego, at the southern tip of South America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the day, the senior U.S. official met with President Santiago Pe\u00f1a and Vice President Pedro Alliana as part of a visit he described as \u201cvery important\u201d for U.S. diplomacy, which seeks to explore investment opportunities and regional security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe talked about security issues. Paraguay is located in the heart of South America, and I think there are many opportunities to strengthen those ties,\u201d he said after meeting with Pe\u00f1a and Alliana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also indicated that his visit recognizes \u201cthe great importance\u201d of the relationship between the two nations and that there are \u201cmany win-win situations given Paraguay\u2019s great potential\u201d for investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday, Landau arrived accompanied by a delegation of U.S. business executives and Juan Pablo Segura, deputy assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On social media, President Pe\u00f1a posted a welcome message in Guarani and Spanish in response to a post by Landau, who lived in Paraguay from 1972 to 1977, when his father, George Landau, served as ambassador to the South American country during the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner (1954-1989).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>teleSUR\/ JF<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Source: EFE<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau began a three-day visit to Paraguay, where he announced that U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":"{\"authors\":[8],\"author_categories\":{\"8\":\"1\"},\"fallback_author_user\":\"1\",\"ppma_author_box_select\":\"\",\"selected_authors\":[{\"id\":8,\"display_name\":\"RRebeldeAdminWP\",\"is_guest\":0,\"category_id\":\"1\"}]}"},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[8],"class_list":["post-13593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"authors":[{"term_id":8,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"yolaunicaquehay","display_name":"RRebeldeAdminWP","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e6145d63ff95c9a0f0e53b7149804b1faf86748d6cc15f466103269a288ea377?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english","last_name":"Radio Rebelde","first_name":"WebMaster","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13595,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13593\/revisions\/13595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13593"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=13593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}