Venezuelan refugees and migrants have increased in the past year, risking their lives crossing the Darién jungle in Panama after the COVID-19 pandemic as living conditions worsened.
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Considering the recent election of Gustavo Petro as Colombia’s new president, Venezuela expects to reopen the border crossings that connect Táchira (Venezuela) with Norte de Santander (Colombia), and with that, the resumption of commercial exchange between the two nations.
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Evo Morales, the former president of Bolivia, wrote a congratulatory message to Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s President-elect, which also included a note on Francia Márquez as the first Black vice president in Colombia’s history.
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The president of Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves Robles, assured that his government has strategic options against the dictatorial regime of Daniel Ortega Saavedra’s announcement that it will allow the Russian army to enter Nicaragua.
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Costa Rican president Rodrigo Chaves is worried about Russian troops getting into Nicaraguan territory and is interested in talking with the country’s president.
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There has been a concerning increase in minors crossing from Colombia to Panama through the Darién jungle.
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On June 11, hundreds of soldiers from 17 Latin American countries and the United States began an annual training exercise in Honduras to improve their military capacity and compete for a trophy for the best.
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Last March, when Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele declared a state of emergency within the country, neighboring Guatemala prepared for an increase in violence within its own borders.
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In a meeting between Chilean Ambassador Ximena Fuentes Torrijo and Peruvian Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Luis Chávez Basagoitia, Chile returned two relics from the War of the Pacific: the epaulettes of Colonel Francisco Bolognesi and the portcullis of the corvette Unión.
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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR, CIDH in Spanish) has urged the Government of El Salvador to guarantee prison policies concerning Human Rights and has expressed worry about the severe conditions that detainees might face in prisons.
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