The President of the organization Transparency International, José Urgaz, who has participated in corruption investigations in his native Peru, visited Guatemala to expose entrepreneurs to a new culture of integrity.

Chileans are criticizing Miss Chile, Valentina Schnitzer, for supporting Bolivia’s calls to reclaim access to the sea. In the face of such criticism from her homeland, which blocks Bolivian ocean access, Schnitzer has stood her ground politically.

Information from the Banco Central del Paraguay (Central Bank of Paraguay) indicates improvements in the Argentinian economy and projects incremental increases of commercial interaction between the neighboring countries of Paraguay and Argentina.

Odebrecht, the giant Brazilian construction company, remains under investigation for corruption by Switzerland, Portugal, and eight countries of Latin America.

Interconexión Eléctrica of Colombia (ISA) won the concession of two transmission lines by presenting the lowest total annual service costs in comparison to other competitors, among which were the Italian company Terna Plus and the Spanish company Red Eléctrica Internacional, among others.

Germán Vargas Lleras broke silence as he expressed his concern of Colombia’s plans for peace with the FARC, its flaws, and how a new tax policy might bring power to the “left.”

The candidate for the presidency of Chile for Frente Amplio (Broad Front), Beatriz Sánchez, proposes in her government program to move “decisively” toward a solution to Bolivian maritime demand.

On June 2, 2017, a community of at least 700 Guatemalans was forcibly removed from its settlement in Laguna Larga, Petén, and has since traveled by foot across the Guatemala-Mexico border in search of refuge.

On October 16, 2017, the first round of negotiations were held for the incorporation of El Salvador into the customs union of the northern triangle, forming a single customs union that would allow certain products to circulate more freely.

“Canada and Mexico will not continue to stay on the sidelines as Venezuelan democracy, human rights, and the law are violated in such horrible ways.”