Venezuela's growing ties with China are vital to the development of the South American nation and the whole Latin America, a political analyst said here on Wednesday.
Mexico's Minister of Tourism Claudia Ruiz Massieu will take part in the first ministerial meeting on cooperation between China and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), to be held in Beijing on Jan. 8-9.
Latin American exports will experience stagnation for the third year in a row in 2014, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) reported Thursday.
Uruguay's President Jose Mujica on Wednesday called for greater Latin American unity in fighting poverty.
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived here on Sunday for a state visit to Venezuela, the third leg of his four-nation Latin America tour.
Venezuela's ailing President Hugo Chavez, recovering in Havana from cancer surgery and a lung infection, has emerged from the delicate post-operative stage and is in a new phase of treatment, Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said Sunday.