Issue Oct 18-24 2023: Brazil’s legislature has continued its assault on Indigenous rights in open defiance of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), with the National Congress approving Bill (PL) 2.903/2023 just days after the judicial body declared the “time frame thesis” to be unconstitutional.

Issue Oct 18-24 2023: The Ecuadorian economy has reportedly not grown like it has in the past.

Issue Oct 18-24 2023: Declaring a state of emergency in crime-ridden and poverty-stricken neighborhoods is no quick fix, and its limitations should not prompt its removal.

Issue Oct 11-17 2023: The overwhelming public desire in Guatemala to end a long-established corrupt system, consolidated with the complete control of public institutions under the current administration, has not yielded any results.

Issue Oct 11-17 2023: Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro recently traveled to China to reach new financial agreements that put the Venezuelan economy at a high risk due to their debt.

Issue Oct 11-17 2023: Concerns over insecurity in Brazilian cities have grown among the citizenry.

Issue Oct 11-17 2023: On September 20, 2023, the 7th edition of the Hispanic American Literature Conference was held at the Cervantes Institute in Paris, with Chile as the honored guest due to the 50th anniversary of the military coup. One of the proposed topics was the “Chaos of the World,”

Issue Oct 04-10 2023: Just a few years ago, the idea of a second wave of leftist governments in Latin America seemed a given, with the return to power of MAS in Bolivia in 2020; the election of Chilean President Boric in 2022 and former Peruvian President Castillo in 2021; the Obrador and Fernández administrations

Issue Oct 04-10 2023: Many have begun to look for correspondences between the genesis of Hamas, the Islamic militias who took over the Gaza Strip, and that of the armed gangs who today control Haiti.

Issue Oct 04-10 2023: Carlos Alberto Rozanski’s October 4, 2023 article addresses the concerning remarks made by Argentine politician Javier Milei during a presidential debate.