Five Panamanian representatives presented the country’s progress, allowing it to exit the “gray list” of Financial Action Task Force, or FATF, on which it was placed in last June. 

El Salvador seeks to turn its Pacific Ocean coastline into a “development pole,” thanks to $277 million dollars donated by the United States. 

After fourteen years as governor of Texas, Rick Perry wants to follow in George W. Bush’s footsteps toward the White house.  This ambition is the most important factor Mexicans should remember when trying to interpret the words and actions of the Texan leader. 

Armando Arriazola Peto-Rueda, Mexico’s ambassador to Bolivia, insists that “Bolivia and Mexico are working to advance their bilateral relationship.” 

Using the Startup Chile program, the Chilean government seeks to attract entrepreneurs and become a point of innovation like Silicon Valley, and young Nicaraguans want in on it. 

The construction of the Interoceanic Canal of Nicaragua, also dubbed the “Nicaragua Grand Canal,” will begin in December and be completed by 2019, asserted Telémaco Talavera, a member of the Grand Canal Commission. 

OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza insisted that now a “regional consensus” exists regarding drug use and trafficking throughout the hemisphere. 

Colombia rebels and the government published the accords agreed to at talks, while President Santos can imagine Colombia without coca and without conflict. 

Thirty years ago, the National Commission on the Forced Disappearances of Persons (Conadep) handed the seminal “Never Again” report to then-president Raúl Alfonsín. 

The “Libro Amarillo” (“Yellow Book”) is a document that is believed to have been prepared by the Salvadoran military in the 1970s and 1980s, and contains nearly 2,000 names.  Historical evidence shows that four in ten of the people on that list were tortured, disappeared or killed.  Researchers believe it is genuine.