With the May elections approaching, Colombian Senator Gustavo Petro, who leads all the preliminary voter polls, embarked on an international tour as part of his campaign for president.

Hannover Messe Fair first took place in Germany in 1947 and today brings together more than 200,000 participants.

Over the last decade, several Latin American countries have based a large part of their development expectations on associations with China. Brazil, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, and Venezuela have made China their main trading partner.

According to the Colombian Mining Information System (Simco), 56 countries purchase Colombian minerals, including China, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, South Korea, and several European nations.

After 50 years of service, Great Britain has replaced Rapier, its old system of air defense, with Sky Sabre, “a new generation [of] ground-based air defense” on the Falkland Islands, provoking an angry response from the Argentinian government in the ongoing controversy over who has the right to govern the Falkland Islands or Islas Malvinas,

Venezuela, “following in Iran’s footsteps,” is attempting to ignore U.S. sanctions on its oil industry and “once again develop its substantial crude reserves.”

China is working to expand its influence across Latin America and the Caribbean.

The European Council recently prioritized the European Union’s agenda for the United Nations human rights forums, taking place later this year.

As president-elect of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, “the first woman president of the country and an icon of the left-wing progressive parties of Latin America, promised during her campaign that her administration would cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan and establish full relations with Beijing, as recently happened in neighboring Nicaragua.”

To position itself as a world power, China’s foreign policy has focused on dynamic economic growth through investments abroad.