On Saturday, January 17, 2025, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, signed the free trade agreement between the European Union and MERCOSUR in Asunción, Paraguay. This agreement is the result of more than 20 years of discussions between the two institutions and now must be ratified by the European Parliament to come into effect. 

On May 12, 2025, in an interview with Bloomberg, Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced that Colombia would join China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), becoming the twenty-first Latin American country to integrate the project. Is the Belt Road Initiative a driver of industrial development for Latin America?

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