Certain groups will not be allowed in Venezuela this December during voter season to ensure ethical electoral practices.  Venezuela will instead invite international entities from other parts of the world.

The Inter-American Development Bank reported that in the first semester exports fell 17.7% in the Southern Cone, deepening last year’s decline of 7.4%. 

With about a dozen international awards won in less than three years, La Hechicera rum is preparing for the international big league. 

This 2015 the National Council of Innovation for Development (CNID) is now a decade old.  At the beginning one of its goals was to promote an alternative policy to the dependence on copper. How much progress has it made?

The Brazilian economy fell in August, according to the Index of the Central Bank’s Economic Activity (IBC-Br), stressing that the country will have a third negative quarter. The activity measured by the Central Bank fell by 0.76% in the eighth month of this year.

The Ministry of the Interior is working with the four mobile operators to implement the rule that forces them to cancel any equipment that has been reported stolen, lost or cloned.

The search for thousands of missing persons in Colombia will require years of work to come.  A government registry lists more than 106,000 victims.  The search is the result of an agreement between Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the FARC guerrillas.

The state and the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts investigating the case of Ayotzinapa formalized their agreement to continue the mission of the Commission in the country.  Mexico’s government agreed to relaunch the search for the 43 Ayotzinapa normalistas missing in Iguala, Guerrero, since September 26, 2014.

Illegal fishing and Ecuadorian pirate ships are threatening the development of artisanal fisheries along the coast of Peru in Piura and Tumbes. Increasingly, fishermen that operate in the Northern Peruvian waters are being victimized by pirates hiding along the coast.

A number of vociferous critics are holding the left responsible for all of Colombia’s current ills and evoking the Peñalosa era as a golden age to which the country should return.