Issue Sep 23-29 2026: In El Salvador, there are perhaps few more telling signs of Nayib Bukele’s authoritarian tendencies than the case of Ruth López, a respected human rights and corruption investigator who has spent over 16 months in prison as she awaits a trial that will take place in secret.

Issue Sep 23-29 2026: The Fe y Esperanza (Faith and Hope) caravan, comprised of over 600 migrants from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Ecuador, and Haiti, has resumed its march toward Mexico’s border with the United States amid rains caused by storm Rachel in the Mexican Pacific.

Issue Sep 23-29 2026: This electoral process is so important to U.S. President Donald Trump that he has not hesitated to intervene openly in favor of Bolsonaro, whom he received in the Oval Office of the White House last May.

Issue Sep 16-22 2026: At the most recent meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, U.S. President Donald Trump had barely finished saying that Cuba was a “state that has failed completely” when the four delegates representing the island nation rose and exited the hall.

Issue Sep 16-22 2026: On September 21, 2026, Guatemala received 2,000 firearms originating from the United States, ending a fifty-year embargo.

Issue Sep 16-22 2026: The United States has once again designated Colombia as a country that has “demonstrably failed” in the fight against drugs, although it continues cooperation and military assistance with Bogotá.

Issue Sep 09-15 2026: The U.S. President addressed the sovereignty dispute during a press conference in Ireland and stated that he could get involved if the two countries were to come into conflict.

Issue Sep 09-15 2026: The United States has maintained unusually high levels of air surveillance off the Atlantic coast of Mexico in recent months, leading a Mexican maritime intelligence company to speculate that such flights are searching for ships breaking the oil blockade imposed on the island by Washington.

Issue Sep 09-15 2026: The Department of Justice in the United States modified their priorities in transnational corruption. In Nexos Magazine of Mexico, Norma Alicia Sánchez Castillo wrote that the new guidelines prioritize issues involving individual criminal conduct, severe corruption, American interests, national security, and connections with cartels and transnational crime organizations. These instructions differ

Issue Sep 02-08 2026: The United States has announced that Peru has joined the Shield of the Americas, the Trump administration’s initiative aimed at combating transnational crime.