Costa Rica enacted a phytosanitary (plant health) measure that aimed to reduce the risk of the spread of the sunblotch virus from imported Mexican avocados.

Daniel Jadue, mayor of Recoleta, Chile, raised concerns about Chilean President Gabriel Boric’s government projects as they relate to Venezuela, Cuba, or Nicaragua.

Intending to enhance and strengthen the cooperation agreement between the Paraguayan Ministry of Health and the National University of Córdoba (UNC) of Argentina, the Minister of Health and representatives of the UNC met to discuss a policy change.

A record number of 650 Latin American immigrants died attempting to cross the United States border in 2021.

In a short press release, the Guatemalan Institute of Migration revealed the possibility of a migrant caravan traveling from Honduras to Guatemala with an estimated two thousand people.

With Guatemala acting as a transit site for migrants, 30 migrants were detained there.

Chile’s new president, Gabriel Boric, met with his Argentinian counterpart Alberto Fernández in Buenos Aires, making Argentina the location of Boric’s first official state visit.

Mexican security authorities halted and dissolved a migrant caravan on its way to the United States from Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico.

Bolivian government official Robert Calzadilla argued that Chile has unjustly benefited from more than 100 years of exclusive use of “all” the Silala River’s waters. During their pleadings before the judges at The Hague, Bolivia argued that Chile unlawfully controls the entire flow of the river, despite its origin from the wetlands of Bolivia.

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported that the number of Nicaraguan refugees and asylum seekers in Costa Rica “has doubled” in the last eight months, rising to 150,000.