The Presidents of Peru and Bolivia met at the first ever Peru-Bolivia Binational Cabinet session to discuss the environmental issues facing the shared Lake Titicaca. 

The Chilean capital has experienced the driest June in half a century, leading to high levels of air pollution and Andean ski slopes devoid of snow. 

Is drug use one of the “benefits” of globalization for the island? 

Brazilian police arrested Marcelo Odebrecht, the head of Latin America’s largest engineering and construction company Odebrecht SA.  To date, he is the most high-profile executive caught up in the corruption investigation at Petroleo Brasileiro, the state-run oil firm. 

Ecuadorian production cannot supply the local market demand for frozen precooked potatoes from fast food chains. 

Costa Rica has closed its borders to avocados from Mexico since May.  Mexico exports avocados to 20 countries, including Costa Rica.  

The livestock “boom” in Nicaragua seems to have ended. 

In a joint statement, the presidents of Bolivia and Paraguay, Evo Morales and Horacio Cartes, respectively, called upon developed countries and international organizations to “guarantee the right of free passage and access to the sea”.  

The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, complained on Saturday that Chile appears as a “Latin American Israel;” expansionist, and opposing regional integration and a peaceful solution to the centuries-old Bolivian demand for a sovereign outlet to the sea. 

Colombia has the second largest population of internally displaced people in the world: six million people.