On June 18, presidents of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay reunited in the Mercosur Summit and urged the administration of Nicolás Maduro to accept humanitarian aid to alleviate Venezuela’s social and migratory crisis.

Agencies believe that legalized abortions in Argentina will encourage Chileans to cross the border to obtain abortions.

The project of the legal, safe, and free abortion law has gotten over half of the votes in Argentina’s House of Representatives. The historical voting session took over 20 hours, and ended with 129 votes in favor and 125 against.

–Researched and written by Aaron Freeman– The government of Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales faced a social media firestorm for supposedly rejecting international aid days after the June 3rd eruption of Volcán de Fuego, which has left more than 100 dead and more than four thousand displaced in shelters.

Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos issued a significant statement in reference to his government’s control over their southern border region with Ecuador.

Chile is on high alert as an estimated 500,000 Venezuelans are preparing to emigrate there in the coming months.

For the fourth consecutive year, the Honduran ambassador in Guatemala, the Tourism Institute of Honduras (IHT), and different flight agencies held a presentation in Guatemala to promote Honduras’ tourist destinations to welcome Guatemalans.

The experience of the Awá nation, one of several indigenous societies that transcend the border between Ecuador and Colombia, provides a case study in the phenomenon of “living borders,” which has taken a turn for the worse.

On his first trip abroad since taking office in April, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel visited Venezuela in support of Nicolás Maduro, just days after his disputed reelection.

The countries that make up the Lima Group will present a resolution to the political and social crisis in Venezuela during the next General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS), which will be held in Washington on June 4 and 5, 2018.