Issue Aug 23-29 2023: President Emmanuel Macron requested that France be given full membership to the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), claiming that French Guiana shares Amazonian territory, making France Amazonian.

Issue Aug 16-22 2023: Brazilian President Lula da Silva defended the expansion of the BRICS so that the group could “sit at the negotiating table as equals with the European Union, the United States, and all other countries.”

Issue Aug 16-22 2023: Miguel Díaz-Canal’s recent visit to Angola was covered extensively by African Press.

Issue Aug 16-22 2023: On August 21, the Central American Parliament (Parlacen) plenary approved the entry of China as a permanent observer to the detriment of Taiwan.

Issue Aug 09-15 2023: As the world has been dealing with changing economics and ever-shifting global dynamics, the idea that Mexico could replace China as a manufacturing giant has become a circulating idea.

Issue Aug 09-15 2023: Legislators from Bolivia’s Comunidad Ciudadana (CC) sent an open letter to President Luis Arce Catacora, requesting that the executive branch provide the Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional (ALP) with the written contracts signed between state enterprise Yacimientos de Litio Bolivians (YLB) and Chinese and Russian companies.

Issue Aug 09-15 2023: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Honduras reached a three-year agreement regarding access to $830 million dollars.

Issue Aug 01-08 2023: In 2022, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Mexico ranked as the country with the highest number of journalist deaths, just below Ukraine—currently at war.

Issue Aug 01-08 2023: The ex-director of Venezuelan state-owned oil and gas company PDVSA, Rafael Reiter, was released from Spanish custody after 40 days of preventative detention, in which he was placed following an extradition request by the Maduro administration.

Issue Aug 01-08 2023: A recently published market case criticized Bolivia’s authorities and argued they did not have the capacity to develop an efficient and effective fight against drug trafficking.