The report on Spanish investment in Ibero-America (former territories from Portugal and Spain), coordinated by the IE Business School showed negative results for Argentina and Venezuela.

Pope Francis approved the canonization of Blessed Mother Francisca Rubatto, who will be Uruguay’s first saint. The canonization will take place in Rome with a date yet to be confirmed by the church.

The number of Hondurans who live in Spain rises every year.

China is now the largest importer of Costa Rican beef.

The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, member of the United Nations Human Rights Council, published a report calling on the Cuban government to liberate and compensate three activists the working group says were unjustly detained and imprisoned without due process for vague, unspecific crimes.

Following the trade deal that was signed in February 2018 after six months of negotiations, as of February 11, 2020, the FTA between Peru and Australia comes into effect.

The price of copper has fallen from record levels due to the increasing number of cases of coronavirus in China, the world’s largest consumer of metals.

On February 10, Colombia’s Office of the Chancellor confirmed the creation of a work committee in conjunction with the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Health to define alternatives “that will allow the aerial transfer of Colombians in the least time possible.”

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) of the United States released its 2019 annual report.

“The Dominican Republic is in full state of maximum epidemiological alert, ready to fight, in the event of the eventual appearance of the new and deadly coronavirus, a respiratory disease that has already caused 446 deaths and infected more than 20,000 throughout China, while the still unstoppable virus spreads through various regions of the world.”