“Our challenge is to position bananas in the Chinese market.”  So said Mariella Molina, Eucador’s Consul General in Guangzhou (southern China)and Head of the Commercial Office in that city.  

Breast implants that include microchips are marketed primarily in European countries, Japan and Costa Rica. 

Presidential hopefuls are not clear on how they will pay for their proposals, even as they face a more challenging electorate, in an increasingly competitive democracy, and in a more difficult economy.

Five contenders and their running mates geared up for their campaigns as the season begins.  

OAS Commission warns that democracy without a free press will dissolve. 

July 3rd, 2014 Juan Carlos Varela took office on July 1 as Panama’s president, pledging to finish a troublesome canal expansion, stamp out corruption and get more people out of poverty. 

Chile upheld the convictions of former agents who disappeared two youths who belonged to the Communist Party, while witnesses in Guatemala told of how their family members disappeared. 

The Colombian government and FARC guerrilla have started a new round of talks focusing on the victims, though President Santos wants the military to keep up the pressure. 

The Dutch peace organization PAX must answer for “defamation, slander, and possibly criminal acts” said the American coal company Drummond, denying that it financed paramilitary groups in the northern department of César.  The Dutch remain unmoved. 

An autodefensa leader is arrested, a “spiraling violence” of shootings and kidnappings continues inVeracruz, and in the heart of the “Golden Triangle” a jailed narco still rules.