Six boxes with 442 books for learning the Greek language began their journey to reach the far continent of South America: where Greek expatriates live and the heart of Hellenism beats.

Polytimi Kyriakopoulou is the Greek motorcycle rider who is getting ready to compete in the 2020 Dakar Rally, one of the toughest motorsport events in the world, held every year since 1979 in some of the most inhospitable areas on Earth.

The Hellenic Space Agency and the Agencia Espacial Mexicana signed a memorandum of collaboration to promote and implement joint actions that include an exchange of scientists, joint event and seminar planning and collaboration at national and international conferences.

The appeal of Greek civilisation, gradually influenced the whole of Central America. In this vein, students from Panama, most of them 4th generation Greeks, will visit Greece in January and participate in a Greek language learning program.

One can say that Uruguay is a country of philhellenes, as out of the 3,500,000 million people living there, at least 6,000 people speak fluent Greek as if it is their mother tongue.

At a time when refugees and immigrants are demonized and become scapegoats of nationalism, racism and intolerance - as we have experienced in Greece - in distant Argentina every year a great folk feast of immigrants takes place to commemorate the numerous ethnicities contributing to its multiculturalism.

A Greek student has won gold at the 58th Mathematics Olympics 2017 in Brazil, where Greece did exceptionally well, also picking up many silver and bronze medals.