The Bolivia/Chile border will remain underdeveloped if their governments can’t agree on a deal; Bolivia remains defiant in face of Chile’s legal challenge in the border dispute. 

The border between Ecuador and Colombia has 62 clandestine crossings that are used for drug trafficking, military supplies, medicines, cement, firearms, chemicals, commodities and fuel smuggling and tanks of gas.  Now there will be cameras watching. 

The private sectors from Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia agreed to form a business lobby, Urupabol, to combat protectionist policies and other obstacles implemented inside Mercosur, mainly by senior members Argentina and Brazil. 

The question is: how to improve mobility and better organize a city with a growing population? 

The two countries look to strengthen articulation between their preparation systems, heighten mutual assistance, and strengthen response mechanisms to adverse natural events. 

The Government of Costa Rica is demanding assurances that the planned $40 billion “mega canal” in Nicaragua will not affect the flow or navigability of the San Juan and Colorado rivers. 

Bolivia and Chile are not on the same page about access to the Pacific, literally. 

Venezuela’s government urged the Colombian Ambassador not to meet with the opposition, while President Nicolás Maduro disparaged Costa Rica’s former president. 

María del Pilar Hurtado, former director of Colombia’s Administrative Department of Security (DAS) under the government of President Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010), could seek political asylum in Costa Rica after Panama revoked her refugee status. 

Colombians are the largest group of foreigners who have gone to Peru seeking employment in the last ten years. Paola Garcia Pinedo wrote in