The Costa Rican government’s decision to ban the entry of controversial Nicaraguan comedian Reynaldo Ruiz was the subject of questioning by the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations. 

The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) alerted that most of the countries in Latin America lack strategies for ensuring cyber security, a reality which leaves the region in a “highly vulnerable” position against attacks of this nature.

Ecuador expressed its interest in starting a negotiation dialogue for a Commerce Agreement for Development (CAD) to Canada, explained the Ecuadorian ambassador in Ottawa, Nicolás Trujillo.

Twenty university professors, most of them Japanese, concluded that for the past three years the presence of women in positions of responsibility has remained “quite high” in 90 percent of the Latin American countries.

The Wang and Ortega project is viewed as questionable due to unlikelihood that it will be propelled by a viable businesses model. 

YPFB hired the Chinese firm Sinopec International Petroleum Service Ecuador–Bolivia branch to oversee the operation and management of the three drills that were acquired from China National Construction and Agricultural Machinery Import and Export Corporation (CAMC).

Amnesty International recently presented a report which analyzed women’s access to health services and their reproductive rights in eight countries.

Foreign Ministers from each country met to discuss which country should claim ownership to the  treasure.

The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently asked the governments of Central America and Mexico to enforce stronger social protection for female fieldworkers to lessen poverty and inequality.

The conflict in Syria has its citizens fleeing as refugees to safe havens all over the world, including Latin America, where several large Syrian communities had previously been established.