The ex-president of the Republic of Uruguay, José Mujica, and the presidential front-runner candidate, Daniel Martínez, joined their colleague Danilo Astori in pronouncing Venezuela a dictatorship.

The Organization of American States (OAS) has set an ultimatum for the Ortega-Murillo regime in Nicaragua with the passage of the resolution called the “Situation in Nicaragua,” giving the regime 75 days to solve the socio-political crisis.

Uruguay left the gathering of the Organization of American States (OAS) in protest of the organization’s response to the Venezuelan crisis.

The National Migration Superintendence reported that it is overseeing the work of migratory control in the crossing area of Santa Rosa and Chacalluta, on the border with Chile.

The diplomatic tension of Daniel Ortega’s regime and the governments of Costa Rica and El Salvador have become strained to the point that no ambassadors in the two countries have been named.

A large-scale blackout in Argentina and parts of Paraguay and Uruguay interrupted regular operation of public transportation, water distribution, telephone communication, and Internet access.

Governors from five Mexican states near the southern border supported the actions of the federal government to stop the flow of migrants from Central America and are assured that the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will carry out the necessary actions in the new migratory program.

–Written by Samantha Lee— On June 8, President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela reopened two international bridges between the Venezuelan state Táchira and the Colombian department Norte de Santander. The bridges span the natural barrier between the countries, the Táchira River. Many Venezuelans had continued to cross the river during the three-and-a-half-month closure of the border,

Talks of creating a common currency between Argentina and Brazil have advanced. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, and the Minister of the Economy, Paulo Guedes, presented the idea of the ‘peso-real’ before businesses and other ministers, which was confirmed by the Argentine minister of Economics, Nicolás Dujovne.

On Wednesday, June 12, in La Paz, Bolivia, the governments of Paraguay and the host nation established a binational committee to work on an intercontinental train and the Paraná-Paraguay waterway.