The Mines and Energy Ministry has approved the environmental permit for a 1.5 billion dollar Chinese-owned iron ore mine in the Arequipa region. 

Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged billions of investment dollars for Latin America over the next five years as part of a drive to boost China’s influence in the region. 

Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will be travelling to Beijing to return the visit from her Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping last July, when the bilateral relation was upgraded to a “comprehensive strategic association.” 

It is expected that relations between the two countries, marked by cooperation in the past, will continue to improve. 

In an interview with El Heraldo and La Tribuna, the highest U.N. official spoke of the challenges facing the region and Honduras. 

Former Colombian Foreign Minister Noemí Sanín and ex-Vice Minister of Justice Miguel Ceballos insist that the construction of the Gran Canal of Nicaragua is linked to a judgment made by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague in which 75,000 kilometers of sea were taken from Colombia to favor Nicaragua’s interoceanic project.

In his first 21 months of papacy, Pope Francis has taken on three of the most sensitive issues for the Catholic Church: collecting fees for sacraments in parishes, adjusting to challenges of new families and the indictment of priests accused of pedophilia. 

Argentine and Chinese businesses are set to benefit from the Senate’s approval of three economic and cooperation investment pacts. 

Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, made a tour of Latin America at a time when the region faces an economic slowdown after years of prosperity. 

The DR’s top prosecutor, Francisco Domínguez, stressed to Polish authorities the importance for both countries in exacting a strong punishment on Catholic priest Wojciech Waldamar Gil (Padre Alberto).