Issue Jun 03-09 2026: Brazil has officially signed off on the Police Cooperation Agreement Applicable to Border Spaces between the States Party to Mercosur, an accord that allows police officers from the bloc’s countries to cross borders when pursuing fugitives or participating in operations against organized crime.

Issue Jun 03-09 2026: Former presidents from Latin America and Spain belonging to the IDEA group (the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas), including Spain’s José María Aznar, Mexico’s Felipe Calderón, and Colombia’s Álvaro Uribe, have requested that the Nicaraguan regime be investigated for “crimes against humanity” in connection with the death of Indigenous

Issue May 27-Jun 02 2026: Three Paraguayan truck drivers have been stranded in Peru for over a month due the road blockades set up in protest against Rodrigo Paz’s government in Bolivia. The last state aid they received, through the Paraguayan embassy, was in early May.

Issue May 27-Jun 02 2026: Chile and Argentina continue to advance energy integration initiatives.

Issue May 27-Jun 02 2026: The government in Chile, led by President José Antonio Kast, has been shaken by a controversial measure forcing public institutions to hand over confidential information on irregular migrants.

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.

Issue May 13-19 2026: Bolivia celebrated two hundred years of diplomatic relations with Peru on May 18, 2026.

Issue May 13-19 2026: Landes, a fishing company, dismissed Germán Andrés Naranjo Maldini, a Chilean citizen arrested in Brazil after being recorded in an argument using racist and homophobic insults aboard a Latam commercial flight.