The bridge’s opening is awaited eagerly to hopefully help restart the local economy.

In recent weeks, the National Land Agency (ANT) has started two projects that would allow uncultivated land to be given to businesses for development.

In the first half of 2020, the Asdrúbal López de Guantánamo Coffee Processing Company sold 702 tons to Cubaexport.

Since the beginning of 2019, Brazil has been in the public eye due to the Jair Bolsonaro administration’s radical changes.

In June of 2020, Bolivia’s Direct Foreign Investment (IED) registered a loss of US $189.9 million, the worst economic downturn of the last seven years.

Throughout 2020, Venezuela ordered some 71 tons of paper money from an Italian company, along with 300 million banknotes from a Russian state.

The consumption of the coca leaf has increased 29% compared to 2013, but only 10% of the total coca production (around 120 thousand tons) has been for legal use.

In September 2020, the first industrial cannabis plants, property of Barad SA and the National Institute for Agricultural Research, were legalized in Ecuador.

Congressional members Juan Carlos Lozada, Gabriel Santos, and Gustavo Bolívar spoke on the current plans and debates to legalize the recreational use of cannabis in Colombia.

In Cuba, there has been a rise in the demand for foreign exchange with the large influence that the dollar has had on the country.