The triple border—Tabatinga, Leticia, and Santa Rosa—is a major cocaine route for smugglers, and security forces lack effective resources for border control.

Finance ministers of the Pacific Alliance met in Santiago, Chile, for the twelfth Meeting of the Finance Ministers. The Alliance consists of Chile, Colombia, México, and Peru, who account for 39% of the regional GDP.

In just two months, 82 women who left Venezuela to give birth, due to poor conditions and lack of food, have been attended to in Cartagena.