Issue Mar 19-25 2025: Bolivia has plunged to 164th place out of the 176 countries evaluated in the latest edition of the Heritage Foundation’s Economic Freedom Index, ranking it as the country with the least economic freedom in the entire region.

Issue Mar 19-25 2025: The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) allocated $4.5 million to aid communities impacted by a devastating oil spill in Esmeraldas and widespread flooding across Ecuador.

Issue Mar 19-25 2025: Jeison Pérez, a Colombian physiotherapist from Cali, arrived in Odessa, Ukraine, a month ago to work with Médicos Sin Fronteras (MSF, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders) in a program for war-wounded patients.

Issue Mar 12-18 2025: Brazil was found guilty by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for violating the rights of 171 quilombola communities in Alcântara, Maranhão.

Issue Mar 12-18 2025: In the international context of new tariffs and trade wars and emergent, often disruptive technologies, we should ask whether we should collectively strive for mutual respect or for egoism, for shared wealth or for individual supremacy, for an inclusive spirit or for isolationism.

Issue Mar 12-18 2025: Members of a fact-finding mission into Venezuela’s Human Rights situation released their first oral report on March 18 in which they indicated that they would continue investigations into some of the country’s practices.

Issue Mar 05-11 2025: Due to sanctions imposed by the European Union and the high logistical costs of importing beer from Asia, Russia has begun importing beer from the Dominican Republic.

Issue Mar 05-11 2025: Nicaragua is edging closer to full dictatorship, warns UN human rights expert Reed Bródy.

Issue Mar 05-11 2025: The Government of the Asian country, through the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), has allocated $160 million towards Costa Rica’s forestry sector.

Issue Feb 26-Mar 04 2025: “Desert Wolves” is the collective code name for four paramilitary groups made up exclusively of Colombian ex-military members who are currently operating in the East African nation of Sudan on behalf of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a guerrilla group dedicated to overthrowing the military government of Abdel Fattah Al