Issue Nov 06-14 2024: Presidents Rodrigo Chaves of Costa Rica and Nayib Bukele of El Salvador have reached an agreement to establish a “League of Nations” composed of countries that share similar goals and values, aiming to promote prosperity, security, and collaboration.

Issue Nov 06-14 2024: Under certain circumstances, refugees who have been forced to leave Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Ecuador will be eligible to enter the United States.

Issue Nov 06-14 2024: The institution in charge of hiring Cuban doctors to provide services in Honduras, the Secretaría de Planificación Estratégica of Honduras, “does not maintain a working relationship” with the specialists and “has not made payments through payroll,” according to two official memos that the newspapers El Heraldo and La Prensa accessed.

Issue Oct 30-Nov 05 2024: Two popular Costa Rican headlines seem diametrically opposed and unrelated: one featured the death of a ten-month-old baby in a drug-related shooting while the other highlighted President Rodrigo Chaves’ plan to receive Nayib Bukele “with full honors.”

Issue Oct 30-Nov 05 2024: On November 1st, 2024, the Brazilian government criticized Venezuela’s “offensive tone” after Caracas recalled its ambassador for consultation citing “interventionism” of Brazilian authorities.

Issue Oct 23-29 2024: The foreign ministers of Colombia and Costa Rica, Luis Gilberto Murillo and Arnoldo André, announced the creation of a fund to finance the protection of biodiversity in the Chocó Biogeographic, which covers the Pacific coast from Panama to Peru.

Issue Oct 23-29 2024: Panama has introduced fines of $1,000 to $5,000 for “any foreign person” entering the country irregularly through the Darién Gap on the border with Colombia.

Issue Oct 23-29 2024: Venezuela criticized Brazil in a statement released by Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry.

Issue Oct 16-22 2024: A coalition of 27 former Latin American presidents has called on the leaders of Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia to recognize Edmundo González Urrutia as the legitimately elected president of Venezuela.

Issue Oct 16-22 2024: Five years after Chile’s major social uprising, a comprehensive analysis reveals how urban revolts have become a defining feature of Latin American politics, and how Chile’s revolts were not an isolated phenomenon.