Jagan Chapagain, the Secretary General of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC), recently stated that, “in many countries, we increasingly observe the secondary effects of the pandemic on livelihoods and the nutritional situation.”

The annual terrorism report for 2019, published by the U.S. State Department, found that the National Liberation Army (ELN), a Colombian guerrilla group, has expanded in both Colombia and Venezuela.

As in the past, President Alberto Fernández created controversy by displaying graphs that Chile said showed inaccurate data, making their COVID-19 rates seem much worse than they were.

On Friday, June 26, 2020, Iván Duque, the president of Colombia, said that Venezuela is a ticking time bomb for public health and highlights Venezuela is a risk for its inability to contain COVID-19.

Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Luis Almagro, spoke on the state of Nicaraguan elections that have been postponed recently.

Edison Lanza, the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), maintained that the freedoms of press and speech have suffered setbacks in El Salvador during the first year of President Nayib Bukele’s administration.

The economic measures adopted by the Paraguayan government to mitigate the impact of the crisis in the border areas now depend on the approval of Argentina and Brazil.

Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro decided that transit across the Simón Bolivar International Bridge can only be held on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and cannot exceed 300 people.

While the coronavirus pandemic has had immense negative impacts around the world, Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, believes that the pandemic may have been “useful” to Nicolás Maduro’s government in Venezuela.

The OAS supports a statistical analysis done of an audit on Bolivian elections that concluded that voter fraud was committed.