The director of the National Library of China emphasized that Chinese readers can now access better knowledge of a distant country. 

President Enrique Peña Nieto says that his country must face its challenges with determination, and dare to change, but that change will bring opportunities.   

Many new reserves were recorded in the rolls of UNESCO and the Allpahuayo Mishana National Reserve could be in danger. 

The Chikungunya virus is spreading rapidly through Central America and the Caribbean. 

There is flooding in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, with record rainfall and rivers swelling. 

The Central American child-migrant crisis is “one of the greatest tragedies” says Costa Rica’s President Luis Guillermo Solís.  Others called it a “humanitarian emergency” and a “social catastrophe.” 

Uruguay’s president José Mujica delivered a message from Barak Obama to Cuba’s Raul Castro. 

Bolivia and Chile are not on the same page about access to the Pacific, literally. 

Venezuela’s government urged the Colombian Ambassador not to meet with the opposition, while President Nicolás Maduro disparaged Costa Rica’s former president. 

María del Pilar Hurtado, former director of Colombia’s Administrative Department of Security (DAS) under the government of President Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010), could seek political asylum in Costa Rica after Panama revoked her refugee status.