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On Pompeo's Latin America visit, Venezuela crisis and China trade loom largeReuters SANTIAGO (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday began a three-day visit to Chile, Paraguay and Peru, a clutch of fast-growing countries in a region where China’s growing presence is a concern for Washington and Venezuela’s crisis has escalated. It will be the first time since 1965 that a U.S. secretary of state has visited Paraguay, a symbolic gesture that experts say underscores U.S. commitment to the region.Pompeo will also travel on Sunday to Cucuta, a Colombian border city receiving many of the millions of Venezuelan migrants fleeing hunger and violence in their homeland. Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pompeo-chile-idUSKCN1RO0BF