Issue Mar 22-28 2023: Amnesty International has released its annual report on the state of human rights in 156 countries, highlighting the worsening crisis in Venezuela where hyperinflation and falling purchasing power led to a “deep humanitarian crisis,” while human rights violations remained unpunished.

Issue Mar 22-28 2023: Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen visited Guatemala and Belize to prevent them from breaking with Taipei under Chinese pressure like Honduras and Costa Rica (2007), Panama (2017), El Salvador (2018), and Nicaragua (2021).

Issue Mar 22-28 2023: The death of 40 migrants in a fire at a detention center in Ciudad Juarez has made waves internationally, and many people are expressing their concerns regarding the event.

Issue Mar 15-21 2023: Russians have arrived in South America “en masse” following Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

Issue Mar 15-21 2023: China is looking to establish diplomatic ties with Honduras and denounced the United States for trying to dissuade the Central American nation from strengthening those relations.

Issue Mar 08-14 2023: According to data published by Peru’s government statistic system, a total of only 70,000 tons of Brazilian corn were exported to China in February, with the majority of shipments concentrated in the new soybean crop.

Issue Mar 08-14 2023: A delegation of 222 ex-political prisoners, expelled from Nicaragua to the United States by leader Daniel Ortega, has traveled to Geneva to present their case in front of various United Nations ambassadors and diplomats against the attacks on human rights currently being carried  out by Ortega in their home country.

Issue Mar 08-14 2023: In Ecuador, there has been a spike in the number of “Albanian mafia” affiliates in the country.

Issue Mar 01-07 2023: U.S. Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar said that military cooperation with China would be “a pact with the devil that can have consequences of biblical proportions” concerning Argentina’s plans to build a Chinese fighter plane factory for export to China.

Issue Mar 01-07 2023: Latin American countries potentially face a “loss of sovereignty” due to the U.S.’s new plans for Colombia, Uruguay, and Ecuador. France is another foreign power trying to secure military power in Latin America.