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Tillerson to visit Latin America Feb. 1-7: State Department – Metro US

Tillerson to visit Latin America Feb. 1-7: State Department

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will travel to Latin America from February 1 to 7, visiting Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, with a stop in Jamaica, and the crisis in Venezuela will be a focus of talks, the U.S. State Department said on Friday.

“U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will travel to Austin, Texas, and then to Mexico City, Mexico;  Bariloche and Buenos Aires, Argentina; Lima, Peru; Bogotá, Colombia; and Kingston, Jamaica on February 1-7,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement.

(Reporting by David Alexander and Katanga Johnson; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)