Mexican Juan Pablo Martínez is a mechatronics engineer who created the Automatische Technik robots that specialize in the packing, unpacking and repackaging of products as well as plugging bottles. 

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development invited Costa Rica to apply as a candidate for membership five years after it began its “push to join the exclusive club of developed economies.” 

The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Juan Méndez, rejected the Mexican government’s take on the UN’s report and denounced “widespread” torture in Mexican police stations. 

According to a report, since 1990 Colombia has had 11,073 registered victims of landmines; and President Santos has set aside land for the Museum of Memory dedicated to the ongoing armed conflict.

Rio de Janeiro’s Military Police (PM) force has started the takeover of the Complexo da Maré favela communities from the national army forces currently stationed there.

As the rate of intraregional migration increases in northwestern South America, rights and conditions for the migrants themselves continue to diminish. 

Four of Bolivia’s six international lawyers argued for its maritime claim against Chile at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. 

Guatemala is losing sovereignty in large chunks. Organized crime, corruption on the part of politicians, and International forcers have all begun to usurp and perverse the power in the nation to make it serve their own interests. 

Development of luxury tourism and infrastructure is behind conflicts with indigenous communities. 

The Chaco Ra’anga travel and art project will reveal the diversity of the Chaco, as well as the cultural and environmental conflicts afflicting the region, the second largest forested area in South America spanning parts of Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Brazil.