Issue Sep 23-29 2026: According to new data from Costa Rica’s Ministry of Public Education School Census, 26 of the country’s public schools reported having substandard toilet systems located in outhouses. Of these schools, twelve belong to the Regional Directorate of Sulá, which services centers in the Indigenous territories of Talamanca and Limón, while six

Issue Sep 23-29 2026: A new form of employment is taking hold on the streets of Havana: the “autonomous” garbage collector. Identifiable by the blue wheelbarrows they push, such collectors, who work neither for the state or for SMEs, are increasingly becoming an essential part of the urban environment, where they help ameliorate the city’s

Issue Sep 23-29 2026: The political struggle over Indigenous autonomy continues. Early in the Abelardo de la Espriella administration, there was an offensive against the nine Indigenous territories, eight in the Amazon and one in La Guajira, that had been formalized under the Petro administration.

Issue Sep 23-29 2026: A year ago, the murder of a student in the College of Sciences and Humanities South Campus, caused by another student, shook the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). It opened up a conversation about security, but brought attention to a broader theme: mental health, prevention, and means for identifying risk.

Issue Sep 16-22 2026: A newly passed law in Ecuador prohibits adoption for same-sex couples and stipulates that parents who consent to gender-affirming care for a trans son or daughter may lose custodial rights to their children.

Issue Sep 16-22 2026: As part of the actions undertaken by the collective Mujeres Mazatecas por la Libertad (Mazatec Women for Freedom), a protest camp was set up in front of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation to demand justice for the 14 people exiled from Eloxochitlán.

Issue Sep 16-22 2026: More than 557,000 children and adolescents in Cost Rica live in conditions of basic or extreme poverty.

Issue Sep 09-15 2026: The protesters named women who were victims of femicide in Morelos, including María de Jesús, Mariana Letizia, Dulce González, Ana Línea, Kimberly Yoselin, Andrea Morán, Aileen Rodríguez, Andrea, Karol Toledo, and Michelle Itzayana.

Issue Sep 09-15 2026: As the Honduran government continues to claim that it is adequately feeding the nation’s 1.2 million children, the drought afflicting the country is making it difficult to ensure that food reaches children in communities whose crops have been devastated and incomes have been hit hard.

Issue Sep 09-15 2026: Minister of Education José Antonio Chang announced a megaproject to renovate and expand the educational infrastructure of Peru during Keiko Fujimori’s presidential term.