–-Researched and Written by Abby Neff— Issue Dec 01-31 2022: Migrants are being dehumanized and weaponized by leaders despite fleeing their country for safety, economic prosperity, and stability for themselves and their children. Venezuelans in particular are unable to return to their country and not much is being done about it.

Issue Dec 01-31 2022: With 61 votes in favor, the Peruvian congress has passed a parliamentary motion that rejects the “constant acts of interference in internal affairs” on behalf of the presidents of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and of Colombia, Gustavo Petro.

Issue Dec 01-31 2022: Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador spoke with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Wednesday, December 28, in their first public intervention after Mexico hired 119 Cuban doctors.

Issue Dec 01-31 2022: On December 28, 2022, military and police commanders from Ecuador and Colombia signed an agreement for border protection, which will be implemented in 2023.

Issue Nov 16-30 2022: Importing and selling mercury is banned in many countries because of its toxicity and “destructive impact” on health and the environment.

Issue Nov 16-30 2022: The summit of the Pacific Alliance, set to be held in Mexico and hosted by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), has been suspended.

Issue Nov 16-30 2022: Migrants face life-threatening situations when they make the perilous journey to escape the deteriorating conditions in their native countries, many attempting to make it to the United States only to be faced with even more obstacles.

Issue Nov 16-30 2022: Although most of the 220,000 migrants that have transited through Panama to reach the United States were Venezuelan, more than 4,000 have voluntarily returned to their home country in recent weeks.

Issue Nov 09-15 2022: The Director for the Americas of Human Rights Watch, Juanita Goebertus, offered a “critical diagnosis of the rights situation in the region,” where she pointed to an increase in authoritarianism in several countries

Issue Nov 09-15 2022: According to the National Society of Industries, the expected production for 2022 will surpass the thirty-year record.