Can the region lead a global rebirth for nuclear energy? 

Despite an agreement between Brazil’s federal government and several truckers’ associations to unblock federal highways, truckers continued to protest on at least 88 federal highways, blocking traffic on 27 of them.  

A new system of “stoplights” alerts consumers about the salt, sugar or fat in supermarket foods. 

Peru will lead growth in Latin America, according to the IMF, while Peruvian Energy says Peru has the resources to become a hub of energy integration in the region. 

President Rousseff’s ruling PT party has been accused of receiving millions in the Petrobras graft scandal. But some commentators say the company’s troubles have been engineered by forces that do not want to see healthy state-run enterprises. 

According to information from the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, the United States was the main destination for fresh Colombian flowers between January and November 2014, with exports reaching US $975.5 million, in value, growing by $21 million over the same period of 2013. 

The level of “informality” rises during Carnival. 

In Venezuela increasing fuel prices is “almost a taboo,” especially after a 1989 fuel price increase was one of the triggers of the “Caracazo,” as the “bloody social explosion” was known. 

Peru asked Argentine energy company Pluspetrol to leave a restive Amazonian town in a natural gas block to calm tensions after protests against the company this week left one dead and dozens injured. 

A group of experts led by Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Stiglitz is in favor of a new system to address sovereign debt.  Stiglitz criticized the judgments against Argentina in the United States’ courts.