The president-elect of Guatemala, Alejandro Giammattei, explains that the $30 million dollar donation by the Mexican government for planting and conserving forests on the border between the two countries would take place in 2020 and will generate thousands of jobs and development among the 1,200 kilometers of the shared Mexico-Guatemala border, reported El Universal of

Tensions between the Nicaraguan government and opposition groups escalated this week as it was announced that Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega prohibited the entrance of seven international diplomats into the country.

Venezuela’s government leaders allegedly received drug money from Mexico through Costa Rica and it’s not clear whether there are any ongoing investigations.

New routes for the traffic of dangerous arms have been used to smuggle weapons from the US and Central America.

The United Nations Human Rights Council has rejected Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s policies on immigration, on the grounds that they represent a step backwards in upholding human rights of migrants.

In the face of the announcement by Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro regarding troops at the Colombian border, both Colombian and Venezuelan analysts said that the chances that a military confrontation will take place are very low.

A new international pact among Latin American nations runs the risk of legitimizing the Bolsonaro government’s destructive, agro-industrial attitudes towards the Amazon.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru has made plans to increase military presence at its borders to prevent illegal immigration from Venezuela, from which over 900,000 people have arrived, fleeing political and economic turmoil.

Agents of the Federal Ministerial Police (PFM) arrested 142 migrants who were traveling on a bus through the southeastern Mexican state of Tabasco, as reported by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR).

The refusal to accept reform can be read as hopeless for Nicaragua, a country currently in the authoritarian grasp of the Ortega government.