Uruguay and Brazil are to sign an agreement to promote the development of Uruguay’s naval construction industry, which has been described as one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy. 

Peña Nieto announced $10 million in aid for Central America. 

Chile admits that Bolivian arguments regarding access to the Pacific are “intelligent.” 

Minister of Justice and Public Security of El Salvador, Ricardo Perdomo, said that his country was receiving weapons on the black market from Guatemala and Honduras, while long guns, such as assault rifles, were provided by the Mexican cartel Los Zetas. 

President Evo Morales filed suit against Chile in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, and asked the court for justice, and insisted that the country will not be a peace until its demand for sovereign access to the Pacific Ocean is addressed. 

The near-universal hegemony of the Catholic Church in Latin America has waned over the past twenty years. 

Protests in Venezuela have aroused widespread concern in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to a recent report. 

The Foreign Ministers of Bolivia and Brazil, David Choquehuanca and Luiz Alberto Figueiredo, agreed to create a commission to study the increased sale of Bolivian gas to the Brazilian market. 

Peruvian and Honduran officials envision a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two nations to improve their respective trade balances. 

MercoPress of Montevideo noted that Brazil’s private sector is concerned about difficult times ahead, particularly regarding exports to Argentina and Venezuela, and is proposing that Mercosur trade should be done with local currencies instead of the U.S. dollar.