Issue Sep 03-09 2025: Argentina’s trade deficit with Brazil is widening thanks in large part to the auto industry and there is no indication that the imbalance will right itself anytime soon.

Issue Sep 03-09 2025: Most of the member countries in the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) are extremely concerned over the U.S. Army’s recent naval maneuvers in the Caribbean waters off the coast of Venezuela.

Issue Aug 27-Sep 02 2025: On August 20, the Maduro administration broke its silence over plans to sell Monómeros, a fertilizer company that is Venezuela’s second most important asset abroad.

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.