Huawei announced the launch of the Spark program in Latin America and The Caribbean. In 2022, Spark will recruit 139 new technological companies or start-ups.

Chile’s state-owned Codelco, the world’s largest copper miner, offered Chinese customers annual copper supply for 2022 at a premium of US$105 a ton.

Spain’s Secretary of State, Juan Fernández Trigo, expressed concern for the situation of imprisoned protesters in Cuba and the lack of social protection throughout Latin America during the pandemic.

Pre-Colombian art pieces were auctioned off in Munich. Several diplomats from across Latin America went to Berlin in opposition of such auctions.

The pandemic has increased productivity gaps, to the point that in 2021, a worker from a high-income country is now 18 times more productive than a low-income one, the largest difference recorded since 2005.

Venezuelan leader, Nicolás Maduro, refused to send a delegation to Mexico City to continue the next round of negotiations with Norway, resulting in the team from the Scandinavian nation departing.

Russia wants to increase the number of new markets where its advanced military and civilian helicopters are sold due to Moscow’s sanctions from Western nations for annexing Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula.

At the Council for Foreign Affairs in Luxembourg, Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Policy, denounced Nicaragua’s repressive spiral as “unacceptable.”

The government of the Republic of China (Taiwan), through its embassy, stressed its commitment to continue supporting Paraguay through the different actions that it has been developing and in this effort signed a Letter of Intent with the Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MIC) , which will officially open the implementation of a new project.

A recent legal claim was filed to the International Criminal Court (ICC) regarding Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s alleged “crimes against humanity.”