Issue Dec 01-31 2025: Following a high-level summit at the Carondelet Palace in Quito, Chilean President-elect José Antonio Kast and Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa signaled a unified front on the South American migration crisis. Both leaders discussed Kast’s plan to facilitate the return of undocumented Venezuelan migrants to their home country.

Issue Dec 01-31 2025: The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has filed a case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights against the State of Guatemala, alleging violations of political rights and judicial guarantees in the country’s judicial selection process.

Issue Dec 01-31 2025: Migrant women are facing difficulties in accessing healthcare in Colombia.

Issue Nov 19-Dec 07 2025: Mexico and the countries of Central America, who together make up the Integral Framework for the Protection and Solutions (MIRPS), have announced that they reached an agreement to intensify efforts to protect migrants and find lasting solutions to forced displacements in the region.

Issue Nov 19-Dec 07 2025: José Miguel Durana, senator for Chile’s region of Arica y Parinacota, has expressed his support for presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast’s proposed approach to the issue of illegal migration in the country. “For those of us who live in border regions,” he said, “having a real program to slow illegal

Issue Nov 19-Dec 07 2025: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has met with her Honduran counterpart, Xiomara Castro, to discuss the launch of a second phase of cooperation involving the Young People Building the Future and Sowing Life social programs, both implemented by Mexico in Honduran territory.

Issue Nov 12-18 2025: Dissident Colorado Party deputy Mauricio Espínola has argued that transparency is essential in espionage cases, suggesting that a classified report given to Paraguay by Brazil is likely to give rise to widespread skepticism.

Issue Nov 12-18 2025: Given a spike in crime rates and chaos at prisons throughout the region, several Latin American countries, including Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Guatemala, are applying the penitentiary model pioneered by Salvador President Nayib Bukele.

Issue Nov 12-18 2025: Three months after fleeing their homes in the municipality of Frontera Comalapa, where two criminal organizations are vying for control of the territory, 97 people, comprising 21 families, remain in Guatemalan territory and continue to receive institutional assistance from the neighboring country.

Issue Nov 05-11 2025: Peruvian cosmetics retailer Aruma has opened two new shops in Bogotá, Colombia.