In China President Michelle Bachelet reassured investors that Chile is “stable.”

U.K. Minister for Latin America, Hugo Swire, spoke of the growing presence of the United Kingdom in Latin America and more specifically on the expanding links with Paraguay.

According to Pope Francis, the world’s poor are not waiting around; they want to be active participants in their own destiny, and Bolivia’s president agrees.  

A cohort of Cuban jurists participated in a hearing, but representatives of the Ecuadorian government were absent. 

Chile’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community lauded a proposal passed by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council striving to end the mistreatment of LGBTs worldwide. 

In an interview Luis K. Zúñiga Valverde,  Deputy Minister of Agriculture, talked about cocoa and hard negotiations to close the multiparty trade agreement with the European Union.

The United Nations adopted a resolution decreeing that the Venezuelan government should immediately release Leopoldo López, the opposition leader who has been imprisoned for almost nine months in connection to the violent protests in Caracas in February. 

Lilian Tintori, wife of jailed Venezuelan politician Leopoldo López asked the United Nations to verify the health of those whom the opposition to the government of President Nicolás Maduro calls “political prisoners.” 

In the 1980’s the former Costa Rican president and Nobel laureate was glorified by numerous intellectuals. 

Japan has been offering educational opportunities for decades.