Issue Sep 23-29 2026:  years have passed since the night of September 26, 2014 when 43 students from the Escuela Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos de Ayotzinapa were forcibly disappeared in Iguala, Guerrero. More than a decade later the investigation still faces unresolved issues that the families consider fundamental to understanding what happened to the

Issue Sep 16-22 2026: Since the United States abducted and imprisoned Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2026, acting President Delcy Rodríguez has tried to find a path forward with Donald Trump, who shows more interest in Venezuelan oil than in Venezuelan democracy. Largely pushed to the side, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado

Issue Sep 09-15 2026: On September 11, 2026, Chile marked the 53rd Anniversary of the 1973 coup by Augusto Pinochet against the elected government of Salvador Allende without an official event for the first time since the nation’s return to democracy. The government of President José Antonio Kast broke with the tradition of institutional ceremonies

Issue Sep 02-08 2026: U.S. President Donald Trump took multiple jabs at Mexico over a single weekend. On Friday, September 4, and Saturday, September 5, 2026, Trump once again lashed out at Mexico on multiple fronts, including environmental and trade issues, and even the name of the U.S. state of New Mexico. Commentators had thoughts.

Issue Aug 26-Sep 01 2026: Brazil’s political landscape has entered a phase of high tension ahead of the October 4, 2026, general election. Recent polls point to a tightening contest between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, seeking re-election, and Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro. Although the incumbent remains in the lead,

Issue Aug 19-25 2026: On August 18, 2026, Bolivian Police arrested Fernando Cerimedo as he tried to board an Aerolíneas Argentinas flight to Buenos Aires at Bolivia’s Viru Viru airport in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Hours beforehand, Cerimedo’s ex-partner, Bolivian lawyer and activist Nadia Beller, had been shot multiple times in a hotel doorway

Issue Aug 12-18 2026: August 13, 2026, marked the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Fidel Castro. Commentary was divided, naturally, between his lovers and his haters, though not without nuance. Many Latin American leftists and intellectuals remain unrepentant in their adoration for the Cuban revolutionary Comandante, though others, and not all on the

Issue Aug 01-11 2026: Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella, who took office on August 7, 2026, vowed to capture or kill ten leaders of illegal armed groups during the first 90 days of his term. The pledge, made during his campaign, is the centerpiece of the “shock plan” with which he plans to reverse

Issue Jul 01-31 2026: On July 19, 2026, Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega said that his country will no longer hold elections as a mechanism to impede the opposition from reaching power. “There will be no more elections here for them to try to seize the government, to seize power,” he declared during an event in

Issue Jun 17-30 2026: On June 21, 2026, Colombia elected conservative lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella president with a particularly narrow margin in a hotly contested race against leftist Senator Iván Cepeda. His arrival seems to indicate a return to business-friendly and pro-U.S. policies after four years of leftist rule under Gustavo Petro. Commentors explored