Issue Oct 09-15 2024: Argentina’s upcoming soybean planting season, projected to cover 19 million hectares according to the Buenos Aires Grain Exchange, awaits crucial weekend rains to begin.

Issue Oct 09-15 2024: Uruguay, with its 3.4 million inhabitants and 176,215 km², has more soldiers than Argentina and Brazil in relation to its territory.

Issue Oct 09-15 2024: Guatemala is making strides toward regulating electronic currency, aiming to modernize its financial systems.

Issue Oct 09-15 2024: Several of Colombia’s biogeographic regions house an immense wealth of biodiversity which could form the basis on which to develop a national pharmaceutical industry that is aligned with certain strategic projections.

Issue Oct 02-08 2024: A number of organizations including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), and Chile’s Office of Agricultural Studies and Policies (ODEPA), stressed the critical need for increased funding to boost efforts to halve per capita food loss

Issue Oct 02-08 2024: Argentina is rapidly becoming a focal point for international mining investments, particularly in the lithium sector, as global demand for critical minerals essential to the energy transition continues to grow.

Issue Oct 02-08 2024: During the fiscal year 2023, the Panama Canal facilitated the transport of approximately 285.8 million long tons of goods, including petroleum derivatives, chemicals, petrochemicals, nitrates, and phosphates.

Issue Oct 02-08 2024: Sharecropping in Ambato has provided residents with extra income despite the lack of land.

Issue Sep 25-Oct 01 2024: Almost all Nicaraguans, 99.5%, “have a bad perception about the future,” according to the results of the eighth survey of Perception of the Political, Social, and Economic Reality of Nicaragua presented this past September.

Issue Sep 25-Oct 01 2024: Illicit trade in Costa Rica now accounts for 2.6% of the country’s GDP, with the lack of strong regulatory frameworks and the complexity of the tax system playing key roles in the growth of organized crime networks throughout the region.