A trafficking organization dismantled by authorities in Costa Rica kept foreign women as sex slaves in three bars in Alajuela that operated for more than a year.

After recalling Bolivia’s ambassador to Brazil last week, as a reaction to the congressional decision to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, Bolivia’s foreign minister, David Choquehuanca asked people not to be “pessimistic” about the relationship between both countries. 

The passage of Cubans through Central America and countries like Brazil, Ecuador, Guyana and Colombia is a recent phenomenon that has intensified with the restoration of relations between the United States and Cuba last year.

The port authorities of Bolivia and Chile highlighted the progress of ongoing talks being held in La Paz to seek agreement on the tariff increase applied for Bolivian cargo in Chilean ports.

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) urged the international community, the United Nations and the Organization of American States (OAS) to permanently monitor human rights violations in Nicaragua in an urgent resolution.

The fourteen-year sentence recently ratified against Leopoldo López in Venezuela has sparked criticism by the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro.

Paraguay and Venezuela’s relations have cooled significantly after remarks by President Maduro led to the recall of Paraguay’s ambassador to Venezuela.

According to Héctor Arce, Bolivia’s Attorney General, on September 13th Bolivia’s ambassador to the ICJ, Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé, will be asking the ICJ to begin a second round of litigation against Chile. This litigation focuses on the territory lost by Bolivia to Chile in the War of the Pacific in 1879.

The secretaries of defense and security of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala met in El Salvador to discuss details on how to coordinate and fight street gangs, or maras.

Migration flows between countries obeys new patterns, driven mainly by inequality.