Issue Mar 01-07 2023: Reports showed that “the Indigenous group, Awá, is the victim of assassinations, forced displacement, and the recruitment of minors for drug traffickers and guerrillas on the Colombian and Ecuadorian border.”

Issue Feb 22-28 2023: Costa Rica’s migration bureau (DGME) has announced that, from March 1, 2023, Nicaraguan, Cuban, and Venezuelan migrants in the country awaiting a response to asylum applications can choose a “Special Temporary Category,” that will allow them to both work and leave the country at any point.

Issue Feb 22-28 2023: As of November 2022, Colombia and Mexico have been working together to move forward with peace talks between Colombia and the ELN (Ejército de Liberación Nacional) in Mexico City.

Issue Feb 22-28 2023: To increase control of the irregular entry of migration on the border with Peru and Bolivia, Chile began a 90-day military deployment in the regions of Arica and Parinacota, Antofagasta and Tarapacá, and areas around the trans-Andean country.

Issue Feb 22-28 2023: Left-leaning Latin American governments have so far failed to address Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s move to strip more than 300 critics and political opponents of citizenship.

Issue Feb 15-21 2023: Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro has met with his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro, on the countries’ shared border to sign a partial trade agreement.

Issue Feb 15-21 2023: Migrant women from Central America endure rape, physical abuse, lack of feminine hygiene products, and trafficking while moving to the United States and Mexico.

Issue Feb 15-21 2023: The Chilean Foreign Ministry and Argentina’s Casa Rosada have declined to comment on a recent crisis between Santiago and Buenos Aires.

Issue Feb 08-14 2023: Colombian President Gustavo Petro received backlash from people across Peru, as he disparaged Peruvian police.

Issue Feb 08-14 2023: Authorities in both Colombia and Guatemala have ramped up regulations related to plant health to prevent the arrival of a fungus that has been detected in some cases in Venezuela, with President Nicólas Maduro confirming the presence of the phyto-disease in Aragua, Carabobo, and Cojedes.