Issue Feb 15-21 2023: After Colombian President Gustavo Petro decried the mobilization of police in Lima against protesters confronting the government of President Dina Boluarte, comparing them to Nazis, the Peruvian political establishment exploded in outrage. On February 17, 2023, the Peruvian legislature declared Petro persona non grata and forbade his entrance into Peru. Amid

Issue Feb 08-14 2023: The government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega released over 200 political prisoners who were then immediately exiled. The detainees, including opposition leaders, priests, and critics of the government, were rounded up from various prisons and home confinements, and early on February 9, 2023, were loaded onto a plane and sent to

Issue Feb 01-07 2023: In the first week of February 2023, thousands of Peruvians from all over the country continued to march in Lima against the government of President Dina Boluarte, with more deadly clashes between the protesters and law enforcement. The conflict reflected the regional, ethnic, social, and economic divisions that have defined Peru

Issue Jan 25-31 2023: By the end of January 2023, marches in Peru that led to often violent clashes with security forces had continued largely non-stop since December 7, 2022, the day former President Pedro Castillo was arrested after attempting to dissolve Congress and rule by decree. The protesters, many of them peasants and Indigenous

Issue Jan 18-24 2023: On January 24, 2023, the VII Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, or CELAC, took place in Buenos Aires. Since CELAC’s creation in December of 2011 in Caracas, many Latin Americans have dreamed that it could displace the Organization of American States, which they claim is merely

Issue Jan 11-17 2023: In mid-January 2023, roughly a month and a half after the ouster of President Pedro Castillo, Peru continued to suffer widespread and often violent protests that were met by equally or more violent repression by the nation’s security forces. More than 40 Peruvians had been killed in the clashes. The fledgling

Issue Jan 01-10 2023: On January 1, 2023, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took the oath of office as President for a third time in Brasilia. One week later, on Sunday January 8, thousands of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court, and Presidential Palace, breaking windows, ransacking, and reportedly, defecating.

Issue Dec 01-31 2022: On December 7, 2022, Peruvian President Pedro Castillo attempted to dissolve Congress (which was trying -for a third time- to remove him from office). He also declared that he was creating a provisional government, instituting a nation-wide curfew, and would rule by decree while he waited for new elections and the

Issue Nov 16-30 2022: In a move that people across the ideological spectrum expected, on November 24, 2022, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party (PL) called for a partial annulment of the October 30, 2022, presidential runoff election in which opposition candidate and former President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva of the Workers’ Party (PT)

The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference or COP27 (held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, from November 6 to November 18), coming soon after the reelection of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as president of Brazil, generated much news and debate about environmental issues in Latin America. The mood was dark and the warnings dire.