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. 

Colombians are the largest group of foreigners who have gone to Peru seeking employment in the last ten years. Paola Garcia Pinedo wrote in

Uruguay promulgated the bill which incorporates Bolivia as the latest member of Mercosur, the South American group made up of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela. 

Cuba’s communist government is seeking foreign partners to develop industries to increase exports and decrease imports of all kinds.   

As the electoral calendar moves along, President Evo Morales presented a plan to make Bolivia “the powerhouse of the region” by 2020. 

The Uruguay-Germany commerce and industry chamber (AHK), expressed concern over the current tension in relations between Uruguay and Argentina.