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.

An increased police presence along checkpoints and roads on the border has made Mexico significantly more difficult to travel into and through.

Venezuelan emigrants, who stopped traffic through the Rumichaca border while crossing to protest their treatment by neighboring authorities, have unblocked the road and enabled traffic to flow again according to the Ecuadorian Police.

On the 23rd of August 2019, the Peruvian Association of Agro-Industrial Sugar and Derivatives (APAAD) presented a complaint of the breach against the Republic of Colombia before the General Secretariat of the Andean Community (SGCAN).

The relationship between the first government of Tabaré Vázquez and the administration of Néstor Kirchner was already tense in mid-2007, and far from being cordial.

As Venezuela has collapsed both politically and economically, its two main exports, oil and beautiful women, have remained important for the country’s survival.