The government of Nicolás Maduro has accused the governments of Chile, Colombia, and Mexico for being involved in the moderately recent attacks on him.

On September 17, 2018, Ecuadorian Secretary of Defense ex-minister Oswaldo Jarrín announced a new set of strategies and functions for the 4,300 soldiers assigned to the Emerald Joint Task Force.

In August, Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales prohibited Colombian Iván Velásquez, the chief of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), a United Nations organization, from entering Guatemala.

Due to the increasing lack of opportunity and basic goods and services in Venezuela, thousands of Venezuelans have migrated to neighboring countries in search of a better life, causing unstable fluctuations in employment opportunities abroad.

In an effort to diversify exports, Peru plans to bring, in vitro, Brazilian bananas.

Honduras and Guatemala carried out the 29th series of negotiations for the Unión Aduanera in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs Roberto Ampuero met with a team of Chilean ministers to discuss an international dispute with Bolivia over the Silala River, which originates in Bolivia and flows into Chile.

A regional response is needed to deal with the Venezuelan migration crisis that is gripping South America.

The Venezuelan economic crisis has spurred a massive diaspora as Venezuelans flee the country. Peru has received around 432,000 Venezuelan citizens.

Colombia will study the possibility of declaring a state of economic and social emergency in the border department of La Guajira, due to the influx of Venezuelans fleeing their homeland’s increasingly dire state.