The port authorities of Bolivia and Chile highlighted the progress of ongoing talks being held in La Paz to seek agreement on the tariff increase applied for Bolivian cargo in Chilean ports.

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) urged the international community, the United Nations and the Organization of American States (OAS) to permanently monitor human rights violations in Nicaragua in an urgent resolution.

The fourteen-year sentence recently ratified against Leopoldo López in Venezuela has sparked criticism by the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro.

Paraguay and Venezuela’s relations have cooled significantly after remarks by President Maduro led to the recall of Paraguay’s ambassador to Venezuela.

According to Héctor Arce, Bolivia’s Attorney General, on September 13th Bolivia’s ambassador to the ICJ, Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé, will be asking the ICJ to begin a second round of litigation against Chile. This litigation focuses on the territory lost by Bolivia to Chile in the War of the Pacific in 1879.

The secretaries of defense and security of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala met in El Salvador to discuss details on how to coordinate and fight street gangs, or maras.

Migration flows between countries obeys new patterns, driven mainly by inequality.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos agreed to an “orderly, controlled and gradual” reopening of the border between their nations, which has been closed for almost a year after traffic was shut down by Venezuela. 

Asylum via Continental Latin America, as opposed to the traditional route of the Caribbean Sea, it appears that the countries they have been traversing have put an end to the perceived ‘free pass’ for Cuban Refugees. 

Continuing the trend that has been spanning nearly a year, Nicaragua is continuing to tighten its borders.