Issue May 20-26 2026: Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino has put the brakes on a plan to sell energy to neighboring Costa Rica due to comments from the latter country’s president, Laura Fernández, involving a trade conflict between the two nations over agricultural products.

Issue May 20-26 2026: The Bolivian Foreign Ministry has announced that it has expelled former Argentinian MP Mercedes Trimarchi, whom they accuse of interfering in the country’s ongoing social unrest.

Issue May 20-26 2026: The Guatemalan army has beefed up its presence along its border with Honduras after armed men from the neighboring country carried out a raid in Guatemalan territory that left a dozen homes destroyed and one local farmer dead. Armed drug trafficking operators are being blamed for the incident.