The Environment Ministry warned the Dominican-Venezuelan mining and construction company (DOVEMCO) to comply with its commitment to environmental improvement at the Las Mercedes bauxite mine, in Cabo Rojo, Pedernales province (southwest). 

The crisis between the federal government and the state of Sonora, arising from the environmental impact of the operations of Grupo Mexico, escalated with the intervention of President Enrique Peña Nieto, who announced that he was sending a special commission to investigate. 

In the exchange of barbs between Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and her main rival Marina Silva, who is right?  Reinaldo Azevedo says “both and neither.”  Patricio Navia thinks that Silva could be “the alternative for a new Latin American left.” 

What is missing is a force able to summon citizens to the polls to punish corrupt politicians, allies of the mafia, and the beneficiaries of clientelism.

The Chilean press has pretty much overlooked one key fact regarding the homemade bomb that exploded in Santiago’s Escuela Militar metro station. 

The U.N. says extreme violence committed by criminal gangs inside jails highlights problems with Brazil’s penal system.  In other news, the State of Rio de Janeiro is the first in the country to plan for refugees. 

On the second day of meetings with local authorities and businessmen in Beijing, the Argentine delegation signed a bilateral agreement for the building of the Atucha III power plant using Chinese investment funds.  And other Latin America nations have their eyes on the growing Chinese market. 

Venezuela’s government has quietly secured the backing of nations in Latin America and the Caribbean to obtain a diplomatic trophy that long eluded the late Hugo Chávez: a seat on the United Nations Security Council. 

The country sent nurses, epidemiologists, and infection control experts who will focus on Sierra Leone. 

Many of the arguments against raising the minimum wage are a clear example of how the ideology of the “free market” works to dismiss the misery suffered by millions of people for the sake of fidelity to an intellectual orthodoxy that mainly exists to aid the class interests of the rich.