The president of Venezuela’s Commission of International affairs, Saúl Ortega, affirmed that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) delegation will not be welcomed in Venezuela.

In 2019, the United Nations reached out to the government of El Salvador regarding efforts to install an International Commission against Impunity in El Salvador (Comisión Internacional Contra la Impunidad, CICÍES).

Two of Nicaragua’s neighbors, Guatemala and Honduras, have had the help of international commissions to promote justice and combat impunity over the course of many years.

Peru and Ecuador commemorate the twenty-five-year anniversary of armistice.

On Monday, January 27th, Guatemalan president Alejandro Giammattei offered Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele the possibility of administering a port in the Atlantic.

Guatemala denounced the Maduro government of Venezuela in favor of Juan Guaidó.

–Written by Samantha Lee— Mexican National Guard (GN), National Institute of Migration (INM), State Police and Riot Police all defended Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala at several points as the first caravan of 2020 and smaller groups of migrants approached the border in the early days of January. When migrants arrived, the authorities blocked passage

Ex-soldier Dardo Barrios was detained in Villa Florida, Paraguay, at the beginning of December 2019 by Interpol agents.

The Lima Stock Exchange is in the process of analyzing the effects of integration with the Chilean Stock Exchange and the Colombian Exchange.

The Ministry of Tourism in Uruguay has recorded large numbers of arrivals from Brazil and Argentina in the first ten days of January, showing a large increase in comparison to previous years.