Issue Jan 22-28 2025: Colombian Minister of Defense Iván Velásquez met with his Venezuelan counterpart to discuss collaborating in military efforts.

Issue Jan 22-28 2025: Panama has initiated the process of drafting a comprehensive plan for a railway that will span from its capital to the Costa Rican border.

Issue Jan 22-28 2025: The government of Salta Province in Argentina has opened bidding on the construction of a new fence on the Bolivian border, the purpose of which is to prevent illegal entry in the sector adjacent to the immigration office in Aguas Blancas.

Issue Jan 15-21 2025: The government of Campeche, Mexico, has confirmed a case of screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) in the state, prompting the Secretariat of Agricultural Development (SDA) to issue a sanitary alert.

Issue Jan 15-21 2025: Panamanian officials have announced that they have started construction on a large “multiuse marine terminal” in Puerto Barú, located in the province of Chiriquí not far from the Costa Rican border.

Issue Jan 15-21 2025: Former guerilla fighter Pablo Muñoz Hoffman’s arrest in La Paz, Bolivia, sparked renewed discussion in Chile, where he was the last of four FPMR members who famously escaped from the High Security Prison in a helicopter on December 30, 1996, an operation nicknamed “Vuelo de Justicia.”

Issue Jan 08-14 2025: Uruguay has recently elected new government officials who have spoken out about the Venezuelan government and other countries’ roles in preventing the deterioration of Venezuela’s democracy.

Issue Jan 08-14 2025: On the 10th of January, Nicolás Maduro was sworn in as President of Venezuela at the National Assembly for his third consecutive six-year term despite claims that his opponent, Edmund González Urrutia, won.

Issue Jan 08-14 2025: Officials in Costa Rica have authorized the importation of beans from Brazil after approving the phytosanitary certification provided by the South American nation, according to the Brazilian government.

Issue Jan 01-07 2025: The “unlawful inauguration of dictator Nicolás Maduro could trigger a new wave of Venezuelan migration to Colombia.