On Tuesday, Honduras and the United States agreed to strengthen their alliances in order to safeguard Honduras’ financial system against illicit activities.

President Evo Morales said that he has the strength to face a new mandate (2020-2025), if that is what Bolivians decide at the polls.

A U.S. hedge fund threatened to sue Peru over bonds issued by the country’s previous military regime. Gramercy, the Connecticut-based hedge fund, bought the debt at a discount in 2008.

In spite of major criticism from human rights organizations and damaged diplomatic relations with Colombia, Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro said he will keep the border closed indefinitely, claiming that “terrorism” has been diminished significantly.  

Although crime lurks throughout the Northern Triangle of Central America, Guatemala and Honduras are beginning to see a slight decrease in their numbers of homicides, but El Salvador, whose truce with the gangs has broken down, sees an index on the rise.

Expressions of solidarity from three governments in the region have upset Chilean President Michelle Bachelet.

In the wake of defending the Bolivian cause at the Second World Conference on Climate Change and Life Defense, President Evo Morales asked Chile to stop threatening and blackmailing, which it also does against the Pope and the U.N.

The successful commodities-fueled economic growth in Brazil, boasting a 7.5% growth rate, financed ambitious anti-poverty programs in 2010, but now the country is in the worst recession it has had in 30 years.

Schools begin to crumble in Paraguay as questions of money mismanagement in the legislature continue to swirl. 

Most Dominicans disapprove of abortion and gay marriage according to a recent poll, which inquired about many aspects of Dominican social and political life.