Issue Aug 27-Sep 02 2025: Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru agreed to revitalize their environmental alliance by implementing a collaborative effort for strengthened conservation practices across four million hectares in the Amazon.

Issue Aug 27-Sep 02 2025: Peru’s National Migration Office has announced that starting September 15th, foreigners with expired visas or overstayed permits will be able to apply for legal status. This program, however, does not allow those who entered the country without border control to apply. This initiative comes from the nation’s most recent campaign,

Issue Aug 20-26 2025: Gas is considered a form of “family subsistence,” a necessary resource driving considerable demand. Some citizens in border towns have resolved by purchasing their own gas cylinders, a practice that Uruguayan customs agency, Dirección Nacional de Aduanas (DNA), declared a system for the “exchange and destruction of gas cylinders in cross-border traffic.”

Issue Aug 20-26 2025: During a plenary session held during the latter half of August, Peru’s Congress approved Motion of the Day 18549, by means of which Colombian President Gustavo Petro has officially been declared persona non grata in Peru.

Issue Aug 20-26 2025: The Office of the Chancellor confirmed that 38 Colombian citizens are being arbitrarily detained in Venezuela, with no clear information about their charges, whereabouts, or legal status.

Issue Aug 13-19 2025: On August 18, 2025, Peru’s Congressional Foreign Relations Commission, chaired by Heidy Juárez Calle (PP), met with Foreign Minister Elmer Schialer Salcedo and Defense Minister Walter Astudillo Chávez to address recent incidents on Chinería Island, located in the border province of Mariscal Ramón Castilla, Loreto.

Issue Aug 13-19 2025: With small gestures and political statements, tensions between Peru and Colombia have escalated, including military flyovers and troop movements.

Issue Aug 13-19 2025: Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa affirmed, after meeting with his counterpart Yamandú Orsi in Montevideo, that his country will always be open to working with Uruguay.

Issue Aug 01-12 2025: On July 15, 2025, an Organization of American States (OAS) Observation Mission that visited the country stated that it hopes that the Honduran elections “will be peaceful, free, and fair, and that the will of the people will be respected.”

Issue Aug 01-12 2025: At the restaurant “Perú con mucho gusto y antojitos nicaragüenses,” each dish tells the story of love and perseverance of Nicaraguan migrant Meylin Peralta and Peruvian chef Jorge Huallpar, who fused the cultures and flavors of Nicaragua and Peru in a restaurant in Santa Ana, San José, Costa Rica.