Minister of Justice and Public Security of El Salvador, Ricardo Perdomo, said that his country was receiving weapons on the black market from Guatemala and Honduras, while long guns, such as assault rifles, were provided by the Mexican cartel Los Zetas.
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President Evo Morales filed suit against Chile in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, and asked the court for justice, and insisted that the country will not be a peace until its demand for sovereign access to the Pacific Ocean is addressed.
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The near-universal hegemony of the Catholic Church in Latin America has waned over the past twenty years.
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Protests in Venezuela have aroused widespread concern in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to a recent report.
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The Foreign Ministers of Bolivia and Brazil, David Choquehuanca and Luiz Alberto Figueiredo, agreed to create a commission to study the increased sale of Bolivian gas to the Brazilian market.
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Peruvian and Honduran officials envision a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two nations to improve their respective trade balances.
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MercoPress of Montevideo noted that Brazil’s private sector is concerned about difficult times ahead, particularly regarding exports to Argentina and Venezuela, and is proposing that Mercosur trade should be done with local currencies instead of the U.S. dollar.
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Carolina Enríquez noted in El Comercio of Quito that Ecuador sees Mexico as an investment destination. At the moment Mexico gains more from trade and investments in Ecuador, but the latter seeks to refurbish this relationship through a new agreement that will open its larger regional neighbor to more of their products and companies.
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La Nación of Buenos Aires noted that on a short trip to São Paulo the Argentine economy minister, Axel Kicillof spoke to his counterpart, Guido Mantega, about the decreased purchases of Argentine cars by Brazil.
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El Nuevo Siglo of Bogotá reported that the U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions against Colombian Fernaín Rodríguez Vásquez and seven partners for collaboration with elements of the Mexican drug cartels, with the help of the FARC.
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