Costa Rican exports are being high-jacked to camouflage drug shipments. 

Insecurity in Mexico will not dampen Japanese interest, while Japan’s Prime Minister pledged development support at the CARICOM summit. 

Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner used her Twitter account to comment on her visit with Russia’s and China’s presidents at the BRICS-UNASUR summit in Brazil. 

Most Latin American governments have objected to Israel’s offensive in Gaza.  Most have condemned the attack and five of them (Chile, Peru, El Salvador, Brazil and Ecuador) have recalled their ambassadors from Israel. 

At the meeting in Fortaleza and Brasilia the countries that make up the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) along with the President of China, Xi Jinping, spoke of the turning point 40 years ago when China and Brazil reestablished diplomatic relations. 

One of the richest men in the world proposes a way to reduce the workday. 

Economic policy should aim to better organize economic activity, increase production, improve productivity (producing more and better existing financial resources), and improve living conditions and social progress.  But this must involve redistribution of income and wealth.  

Do not be fooled by the merchants of poverty. 

After the intensity of the World Cup, Brazil turns back to real life. And real life is showing itself to be somewhat complicated, especially for President Dilma Rousseff. 

Pope Francis called for more respect for nature today, branding the destruction of South America’s rain forests and other forms of environmental exploitation as a sin of modern times.