Is drug use one of the “benefits” of globalization for the island? 

Brazilian police arrested Marcelo Odebrecht, the head of Latin America’s largest engineering and construction company Odebrecht SA.  To date, he is the most high-profile executive caught up in the corruption investigation at Petroleo Brasileiro, the state-run oil firm. 

Ecuadorian production cannot supply the local market demand for frozen precooked potatoes from fast food chains. 

Costa Rica has closed its borders to avocados from Mexico since May.  Mexico exports avocados to 20 countries, including Costa Rica.  

The livestock “boom” in Nicaragua seems to have ended.