On June 26, 2019, there were incidents in the Bus Terminal of Asunción where taxi drivers held hostage and assaulted the Uber drivers and their passengers for several hours.

After 20 years of negotiations, the European Union and the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) reached a trade agreement that will open European markets to the agricultural products of MERCOSUR.

–Written by Aaron Freeman— Michelle Bachelet, the former president of Chile and current UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, arrived in Caracas on the 16th of June to investigate the crises that continue to drive Venezuelans out of their home country.

The director of the UNESCO division of Ciencias Ecológicas y de la Tierra, Miguel Clüsener-Godt, sent a note to the Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (UNESCO) for having mis-classified chipa as a product of Argentine origin in its social networks.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) stated on Tuesday, June 18, in Miami that neither Cuba’s new president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, nor the new constitution has favored democracy or respected human rights.

After ten days of waiting, Dominican authorities revealed the new conclusions reached by their investigation into the events that resulted in the non-fatal shooting of retired baseball star David Ortiz.

For the first time in three years, Paraguay was not included on the International Labor Organization’s “black list” of countries that don’t respect work regulations.

A report produced by Greenpeace France on June 4, 2019, concluded that eating animal products in Europe increases deforestation in Brazil and Argentina because of the massive importation of transgenic soybeans from these countries to feed the livestock.

Peru continues to be seen as a success story in emerging markets, culminating in an expected “respectable demand” for Peruvian sovereign bonds in the future, according to a fund manager from JP Morgan, Diana Amoa.

In a report published by the Institute for Management and Development (IMD), Chile fell by seven places in the list of the most competitive countries in the world.