Argentine and Chinese businesses are set to benefit from the Senate’s approval of three economic and cooperation investment pacts. 

Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, made a tour of Latin America at a time when the region faces an economic slowdown after years of prosperity. 

The DR’s top prosecutor, Francisco Domínguez, stressed to Polish authorities the importance for both countries in exacting a strong punishment on Catholic priest Wojciech Waldamar Gil (Padre Alberto). 

Protests in Venezuela in early 2014 left more than 40 dead.  The Committee Against Torture states that only five cases of the 185 reported saw charges brought by prosecutors, and the U.N. asked the country to investigate allegations of torture during the demonstrations. 

Returning from a trip to Poland, Cuban Baptist pastor Mario Félix Lleonart was grilled at José Martí Airport in Havana for four hours, demonstrating that travel abroad is still not considered routine or particularly encouraged in Cuba, especially if it concerns human rights. 

Around 28.5 million Latin American and Caribbean natives are living outside their countries of origin says a report by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). 

In China President Michelle Bachelet reassured investors that Chile is “stable.”

U.K. Minister for Latin America, Hugo Swire, spoke of the growing presence of the United Kingdom in Latin America and more specifically on the expanding links with Paraguay.

According to Pope Francis, the world’s poor are not waiting around; they want to be active participants in their own destiny, and Bolivia’s president agrees.  

A cohort of Cuban jurists participated in a hearing, but representatives of the Ecuadorian government were absent.