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.

Issue Oct 16-22 2024: Thousands of Venezuelans who left their country after the electoral crisis are now preparing to head to the United States in a caravan from the southern border of Mexico, asking both governments to consider their situation.

Issue Oct 09-15 2024: A special meeting of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) was convened at the request of Haiti, after the Dominican Republic announced last week the beginning of a repatriation process of undocumented Haitians that seeks to reach 10,000 people per week.

Issue Oct 09-15 2024: Representatives of the Venezuelan opposition presented compelling evidence before the Organization of American States (OAS) to assert that Edmundo González, the opposition candidate, was the rightful winner of the presidential elections held on July 28, 2024.