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.

Issue Nov 09-15 2022: The National Migration Service of Panama registered the irregular transit of over 211,000 migrants through the Darién jungle from January to October of 2022.

Issue Nov 02-08 2022: Residents of San Marcos have been confronted with a problem that dates back more than two decades. According to Fernando Mollinedo in La Hora of Guatemala City, the communities decided to make a formal request to the government of the Mexican state of Chiapas because they lacked electricity.

Issue Nov 02-08 2022: In Panama, judge Bolaisa Marquinez has ruled to try 36 people for charges of money laundering through the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, including former presidents Ricardo Martinelli and Juan Carlos Varela.

Issue Nov 02-08 2022: Trade between the Dominican Republic (DR) and Brazil is reportedly “very weak.”

Issue Oct 26-Nov 01: With the election of Brazil’s new president elect, Luíz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, the six biggest economies in Latin America with the largest populations – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru – now have presidents who are left or center-left.

Issue Oct 26-Nov 01: Private organizations unite to support Venezuelan migrants in Costa Rica. BAC Credomatic’s platform, YoMeUno, receives funds to support migrants.

Issue Oct 26-Nov 01: Colombian President Gustavo Petro and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro met in Caracas on Tuesday, November 1, to discuss bilateral relations, the reopening of their countries’ borders, and the gradual re-entry of Venezuela into the Inter-American system of Human Rights.