Issue Mar 26-Apr 01 2025: The planned sale of two ports at the Panama Canal to a U.S. consortium led by BlackRock, hailed by Donald Trump as a “recovery” of the strategic interoceanic route by the United States, will experience at least a brief delay beyond its initial April 2 deadline.

Issue Mar 26-Apr 01 2025: The embassies of Spain, the European Union, France, Germany, and the Netherlands issued a joint statement on Monday lauding the “historic participation” of citizens in Honduras’ recent primary elections.

Issue Mar 26-Apr 01 2025: Desperate for a multi-million dollar injection from the IMF into his nation’s economy, Argentina’s Finance Minister Luis Caputo leaked details about ongoing negotiations in flagrant violation of internal IMF protocol, leaving the government in suspense as it awaits further developments in what is shaping up to be an increasingly dire

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.