The International Organization for Migration (IOM), and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), have launched a campaign to avoid discrimination against Honduran migrants.

The first of five Iranian oil tankers arrived in Venezuela to deliver nearly 1.5 million barrels of oil to the country, following a two-month oil shortage that coincided with a national quarantine to combat the novel coronavirus.

During the unprecedented times of the novel COVID-19, Panama continues to be denounced for abusing the application of preventive arrest.

Dr. Mike Ryan, the World Health Organization’s emergencies expert says: “In a sense, South America has become a new epicenter for the disease.”

Every morning in the center of Santa Clara, two long lines form: one for the local Western Union office, where people collect their remittances; and another in front of the store Praga, where these funds are spent.

After being closed to Chilean citrus fruits for twenty years, China has announced that it will begin to import these fruits again.

With the drastic changes introduced and caused by current Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s international relations and standing on the global stage have been transformed.

Latin American countries have responded to the coronavirus outbreak in a variety of ways, but they are all still facing high rates of death and infection that rival numbers from Europe and the United States.

“Latin America will probably be the new center of the pandemic, given that the cases here are growing at a rapid speed,” emphasized Ana de Lemos, the director of Doctors without Borders in Brazil.

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) recently published the report “Scaling the effects of Covid-19 to think about reactivation” to contribute to the conversation about how the Central American economy could be affected economically by the pandemic.