President Otto Pérez Molina has said that “Latin America is a land of opportunity.” 

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Director for the Western Hemisphere Department Alejandro Werner has once again called for the region to embark upon economic reforms, claiming that the “least difficult” phase of economic growth is now over. 

Russia intends to promote cooperative programs in the areas of telecommunications, space technology, remote sensing, space medicine, and biology in Nicaragua. 

The Chinese Foreign Minister has underscored the “strategic” significance of Brazil for Beijing, Chinese companies are looking to Guatemala, and President-elect Luis Guillermo Solís of Costa Rica says ‘no deal’ to an agreement his predecessor cut with China. 

Cuba and the European Union are now negotiating over new agreements regarding political dialogue and economic cooperation. 

On his first trip to Central America in the 1980s, the now sainted Pope John Paul II blithely disregarded the bloody deeds of his hosts in Guatemala and El Salvador as well as those of the U.S. supported Contras attacking Nicaragua. 

The government of President José Mujica in Uruguay offered his country as a refuge for Syrian child victims of war in that country, shortly after becoming the first South American nation to accept a U.S. proposal to host Guantanamo detainees. 

Venezuela’s Roman Catholic Church has accused President Nicolás Maduro’s government of “totalitarian” tendencies and “brutal repression” of demonstrators during two months of political unrest that has killed several dozen people. 

Developers say the Golfito Marina Village & Resort’s deep-water marina will accommodate “gigayachts” up to 350 feet. 

Even if the French press did not give it much notice, the visit to Cuba by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius marked a new stage in the relations between the island and the EU.